Jack Brickhouse Quotes

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

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

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

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

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

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.

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

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

I always thought it would be a terrible mistake, and I would hope that none of my news journalist colleagues would ever consider it.

I certify and declare that the Account of the Population of the District for which I am Enumerator, contained in this Book, has been truly and faithfully taken by me, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the same is correct

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.