Alexandra Kerry Quotes

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

I warn my readers against my biases.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

There is no human objectivity.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.