16 Quotes by Matthew Felling

Advocacy is calling for action. Aggressive reporting is calling for answers.

This is a rough story for journalists to cover because your journalism textbook has to take a back seat to your moral compass, and the coverage is visceral because of this. When people beg Chris Lawrence for help, they're forcing him to be not just a spectator but a reluctant leader.

It's an accumulation of things. In Iraq, it's the reality versus the perception and the whole debate of whether we're in the last throes of the insurgency or in for a dozen more years. The momentum has been building toward the media regaining its sea legs.

After the traffic stoppages have passed and the facts are rehashed, reporters are merely craning their necks and halting the normal pace of the news, ... There's 10 or 15 minutes of real news here and they're filling four hours with it. That's what most people have a problem with.

If there is a demand for family tiers, this is a very wobbly attempt.

I don't think Katrina is the turning point so much as 2005 is the turning point,

The media's credibility takes a short-term hit with these public corrections. But ... the media is becoming very skillful at policing itself - which will build its accuracy in the future.