Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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.
What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Justice is truth in action.
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.