Ed Helms Quotes

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

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

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.

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.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

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

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

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.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.

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

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.

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

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

Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.