Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.
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 do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.
I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.