Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

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

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

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

News isn't even the truth on television.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.