Robert Fisk Quotes

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

I will not be misquoted!

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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.

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

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

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

I was taught that newspapers were supposed to find out if rumors were true, and if not, not print them.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

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