A Quote by Herbert Bayard Swope

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Accurate Duty Fair First Follows Newspaper

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Herbert Bayard Swope
American - Editor
January 5, 1882 - June 20, 1958

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

Ari Fleischer

The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.

Eli Roth

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

Robert Kiyosaki

For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.

Patrisse Cullors

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Andrew Card

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

Susanna Kaysen

As far as being accurate goes, I think you either are or you aren't. I don't think you can really become accurate.

Kyler Murray

The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.

Donald A. Norman

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Walter Cronkite

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

Vincent Van Gogh

Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate.

Joey Logano

Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

Gavin de Becker

You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What magazines do is curate: we give accurate and trustworthy information. If you have a problem, it's very difficult to go to the web and get accurate information... magazines, at their best, should be an incredible voyage of discovery.