John F. Kennedy Quotes

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

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

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

We try and slow down the news.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

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

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

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

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

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

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

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

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.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.