William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

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

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

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

The news and truth are not the same thing.

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

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

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

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.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

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

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

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

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.