In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.
Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.