Jon Stewart Quotes

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.

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

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

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

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

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

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

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'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.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

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

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.

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

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

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

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.