Donald Trump Quotes

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

I want to see an honest press.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

It's so important to the public to get an honest press. The press - the public doesn't believe you people anymore.

There are some great reporters around. They're talented, they're honest as the day is long. They're great. But there are some terrible, dishonest people, and they do a tremendous disservice to our country and to our people.

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

I've never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media. I thought the financial media was much better, much more honest.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New Republic ], I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing [fire a journalist].

I thought the coverage of the election 2017 was disgraceful, and it was dishonest. It was ideologically driven and I think that the news agencies that did that will never return to a level of credibility ever.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate.

Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.