Rick Moranis Quotes

While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

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

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.

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

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

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

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

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.

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

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

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

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.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

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

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

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

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

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

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

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

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

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

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

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.