Scott Eastwood Quotes

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

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

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I'm very wary of news on television.

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.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

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

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

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

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well-researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. So one thing that I felt it was very important to do - and I hope we can correct it. Because there's nobody I have more respect for - well, maybe a little bit but the reporters, good reporters.

I love what news has become. It's no longer based on facts, it's based on entertainment.