Calvin Klein Quotes

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

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

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

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

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

Right Wing watch falsely accused me of harassing Oliver Darcy, a reporter for CNN. However, I was practicing real journalism at a Conservative conference where it is the consensus that 'CNN' is fake news.

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

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

If someone appears on television and makes a comment, and we quote that comment, we are being accurate. But are we actually being sensible if we don't know if that comment is based on any facts whatsoever? It is something that journalists have to be much more aware of.