Quotes About Truth

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

Journalism is not writing.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

I've never used the word 'I' in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.

I'm doing real journalism.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

Definitely there has been a decline in journalism. It wasn't there at all when you fought an election, won, lost and came back to become an editor. That must have been the golden age of journalism.

I love journalism.

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.