David Bailey Quotes

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

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.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

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

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

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.

Journalists have to call out and correct the lies and smears polluting the air waves.

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.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

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

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.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.

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.

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

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'

It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.