Georgie Anne Geyer Quotes

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.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

How do you know the news is reliable if you didn’t gather it yourself?

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

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

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

The media's job is to question a premise.

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.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.