Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

I was a bad journalist.

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

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

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

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

TV can keep you honest because the viewers really do listen. People who have succeeded in this have shown the audience how hard they work and that their reporting is really worthwhile.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

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.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

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 tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.

I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever... Not that journalism is always wonderful - it's not - but at least we offer some way out, some integrity.

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

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.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.