Lynsey Addario Quotes

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

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

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

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

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.

I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

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

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

Right Wing watch falsely accused me of harassing Oliver Darcy, a reporter for CNN. However, I was practicing real journalism at a Conservative conference where it is the consensus that 'CNN' is fake news.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

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.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.