Errol Morris Quotes

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Too often reporters covering scientific debates give fringe views equal weight in a misguided attempt to achieve balance.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's the truth.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.