Fred Wilson Quotes

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

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

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

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

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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

All the news that fits we print.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

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

I'm a journalism junkie.

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.