Quotes About Truth

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

What we want is responsible journalism. We want to avoid bigotry.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

I think journalism is important.

I believe frontline journalism is important.

Even journalism has ethics and everyone should follow them.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.