Verifying Sources Quotes

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

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

I will never speculate on data. I always need to see data.

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

I'm following a real event and real people.

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

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.

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

Don't believe everything you read.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.