Naomi Wolf Quotes

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

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

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

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

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

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

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

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.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

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

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

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

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.