Gina McKee Quotes

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.

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

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

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

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.

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.