Mary Hart Quotes

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

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

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

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

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.

Never believe anything until it has officially been denied.

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

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

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.

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.