Truth in news quotes:

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If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else. -- Don Lemon
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
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Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds. -- James Howard Kunstler
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. -- Elayne Boosler
Truth and news are not the same thing. -- Katharine Graham
News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried. -- Toba Beta
The news and the truth are not the same thing. -- Walter Lippmann
Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth. -- Henry Rollins
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. -- Sophocles
I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth. -- Siriworn Kaewkan
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. -- Adrienne Rich
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. -- Walter Cronkite
I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less. -- Mira Grant
When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news -- John Piper
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. -- David Riesman
Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth. -- Anthony Weiner
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news. -- Michel de Montaigne
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets. -- Johnny Borrell
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information. -- Barbara Boxer
I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson -- Rick Riordan

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