Facts Quote by James Taranto

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

— Jon Stewart

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

— Ira Glass

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by…

— Edward P. Jones

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news.…

— Ari Melber

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean…

— Alice Dreger

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

— Shane Smith

Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the…

— Pamela Meyer

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

— Masha Gessen

Well, I think the public has been well-served by the increase in fact-checking. And I find it shocking that not all news outlets have…

— Brian Stelter

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

— Barbara Boxer

“Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art”

— Gary Hopkins

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

— Marilyn vos Savant