Factual Reporting Quotes

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Anchors like Megyn Kelly are incredibly powerful in terms of distilling the information and reporting the news and maybe some opinion to the public in a fair handed and complete way.

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

Most of our writers tend to be recorders.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.

I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

Whenever one assumes the role of historian, friendship and enmities have to be forgotten. Often one has to bestow on adversaries the highest praise…. I hope to satisfy … by appealing to the evidence of actual events and of eyewitnesses.

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

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.