Bruce Morton Quotes

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

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.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

We try and slow down the news.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.