Gareth Barry Quotes

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

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

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I'm very wary of news on television.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

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

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

How do you know the news is reliable if you didn’t gather it yourself?