Wolf Blitzer Quotes

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

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

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.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

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.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

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

You can’t report on something that you don’t know about.