Ben Jonson Quotes

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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

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.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

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.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

We spend, you know, 48 hours on bogus stories, and the American people suffer. So I do think it is a problem. And I think that the media needs to, in some cases, not every case, but, in some cases, really needs to get its act together.

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

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

News isn't even the truth on television.

I'm very wary of news on television.

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.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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

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

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

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.