Never believe anything until it has officially been denied.
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.
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 have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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.
Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.
In my career, I do not stop for news when it's not true.
Nothing is news until it has appeared in the columns of The Times.
I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.
My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
