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Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States. -- Julian Assange
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. -- Henry Rollins
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. -- Julian Barnes
I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism. -- Regina Hall
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. -- Oriana Fallaci
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. -- Nick Denton
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output. -- Heather Brooke
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. -- Helen Thomas
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth. -- Jared Kushner
Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is. -- Robert Redford
Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for. -- Leslie Cockburn
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. -- David Brock
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. -- Carl Bernstein
I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal. -- Tom Rachman
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. -- Jef I. Richards
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. -- Carl Bernstein
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. -- John Thomas Sladek
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. -- Hunter S. Thompson
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. -- Nate Silver
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No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape. -- Greg Egan
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth. -- Seno Gumira Ajidarma
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil. -- Walter Lippmann
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. -- David Brock

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