Quotes About Accuracy

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

I can remember, at the start of my career, there were reports of about 100 words here and there, and they would have got your name wrong or the name of the scorer wrong. It just wasn't taken seriously at all.

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only get the facts right but represent the subject to the world in a way that insiders feel like it's an access port and outsiders can access it. If you're too insider, you block access to anyone else.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

I think, for an artist, when you're drawing somebody who actually exists, it's a much steeper critical curve, as there is an actual representation of that person out there. You can't just interpret it any way you want.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.