Quotes About Accuracy

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

The experience I don't want to see repeated occurred in 'Bush v. Gore.' The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the environment.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

Bloggers are not reporters.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.