Will Leitch Quotes

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

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

Business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

I don't want to defend rumors. It's certainly nothing new. The only development in recent years is the [lower] threshold at which news organizations will print rumors.

Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

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

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

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

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.

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well-researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods.