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I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.