Voltaire Quotes

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

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

You can’t report on something that you don’t know about.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.

You can never trust what you read.