Lynette Fromme Quotes

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

The media can't get anything straight.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

I think what I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera on air are not particularly believed and quite often not true and its an extraordinary position to be in when you've had WhatsApp messages, text messages off record.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

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'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.