Peter Jennings Quotes

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.