Ward Churchill Quotes

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

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

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

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

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be 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.

Even if you had the wherewithal to embarrass a reporter, there was no mechanism to do it. And in most cases, you might as well save your breath because the reporter had no shame anyway.

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

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

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

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

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

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

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

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

I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

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.