Reliable Sources Quotes

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.

Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.

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.

It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.

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.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

I think that any time you are making a film you have to realize that the people you are talking with might be giving you misinformation. Sometimes it is factually incorrect and for that, it's important to me to check it out and not let things find their way into the film without being challenged, either by me, or by another character, or by evidence that you might see on screen.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

You can't believe everything you read.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.