Rod Lurie Quotes

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

A lot of people want to discredit me.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.

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

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

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

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.

False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.

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. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.