Rik Mayall Quotes

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

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

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

We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's the truth.

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

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

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

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.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

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

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

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

I'm very wary of news on television.

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

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.