Kara Swisher Quotes

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

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

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.

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

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

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

Seek truth from facts.

Truth is a great flirt.

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

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

Truth is a big concept.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Truth is the best defense.

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

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

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

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.