Lucy Dalglish Quotes

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.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

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

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

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

It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.

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

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Great questions make great reporting.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

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.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Profiles aren't journalism.