News Authenticity Quotes

When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

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.

The 'Fake News Alert' Chrome extension, created by 'New York Magazine' journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

I say it's unprecedented. Have we seen a president or an administration decide what's going to be fake news and what they dismiss in terms of answering? Because there has been fake news before. All of us have gone through that.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.

Let me clarify a few things about TV news on the national level at NBC and MSNBC. We write our own stories. There is no teleprompter for reporters. No traveling makeup artists or stylists. And there is very little sleep.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

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.

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 sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.'

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

We must fight for liberal ideas like openness, but also about having a media that we believe in and that can sort between real news and facts and not-so-factual things.

I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.