Barbra Streisand Quotes

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

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.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

I was taught that newspapers were supposed to find out if rumors were true, and if not, not print them.

Lies are beginning to be solidified and made into historical fact…. The truth is all I want for history.

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

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

I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

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