Andrew Rosenthal Quotes

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

It is our responsibility not to make charges we can't substantiate

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

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

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

I don't give false claims any due.

I don't like when people come out and say 'sources say' and this and that. Listen, if you can't put your name behind it, then don't say it. I don't believe in that.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

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