Marshall Curry Quotes

It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

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!

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

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.

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

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

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

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.

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

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.