Barbara Boxer Quotes

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

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

[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

Never use 'Politico' for a source for your story.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

I thought the coverage of the election 2017 was disgraceful, and it was dishonest. It was ideologically driven and I think that the news agencies that did that will never return to a level of credibility ever.

In a democracy, if people don't have accurate information, how can they be active citizens? How can they be part of the debate? And if you are facing powerful forces on the right and in Trump administration who want to create an alternative reality that feeds into their objectives for our country, you more than ever need the press to cut through that, and to be as accurate as possible.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.

The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. So one thing that I felt it was very important to do - and I hope we can correct it. Because there's nobody I have more respect for - well, maybe a little bit but the reporters, good reporters.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.