Sheryl Crow Quotes

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

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

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

News isn't even the truth on television.

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

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

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

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

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

It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

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