Quotes About Accuracy

Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.

Because 'The Boy With The Topknot' is a true story there are so many specific details that are true, current, accurate and haven't been made up.

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Trump lies a whole lot more than Joe Biden or any other Democratic politician.

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

You never monkey with the truth.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Exactitude is not truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

You can't argue with the truth.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.