News Reliability 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.

Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again.

We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

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.

I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations.

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

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

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

Being a consumer of conservative news sites as well as a producer of one, I felt like Drudge's site abandoned that.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.

If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

I'm very wary of news on television.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

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

I don't trust CNN anchors.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

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

With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.