Quotes About Truth

Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths.

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

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

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

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!

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.

As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

Yes, there's still much good journalism to be found, if you know where to look. Yet, ask reporters who've been around a while, and many will tell you that a lot of good journalism is being left unpublished.

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.

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.

We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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

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

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

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.