David Brock Quotes

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

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

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

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.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

I used to be a journalist.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.