A Quote by Sharyl Attkisson

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

Sharyl Attkisson

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Advocacy Aside Fact Find Journalistic Reporters Role Seekers Set Slippery Slope Themselves Traditional

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Sharyl Attkisson
American - Journalist
Born: 1961

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

Ken Ham

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

William A. Henry III

I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

Chelsea Handler

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

John McCarthy

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

Luke Evans

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.

Kerry Washington

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Anne Campbell

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Martin Amis

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Gever Tulley

I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

Mark Waid

One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.

Aditya Roy Kapur

In the United States, the mainstream news outlets like to portray themselves as observers, content to let events play out without interference. But in Britain, where crusading journalistic campaigns are part of the tradition, it is far more acceptable for reporters to become active participants, with a specific outcome in mind.

Jo Becker

By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

Dana Milbank

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.