Josh Hawley Quotes

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

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.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

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

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

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

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.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.