Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.