Media Accuracy Quotes

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

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.

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.

The 1st Amendment does not mandate that the press be accurate.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

There’s dramatic license, which is necessary or nothing’s fun, and historical truth, which is necessary or nothing’s understood.

I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

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

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

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

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

If someone appears on television and makes a comment, and we quote that comment, we are being accurate. But are we actually being sensible if we don't know if that comment is based on any facts whatsoever? It is something that journalists have to be much more aware of.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.