Fareed Zakaria Quotes

Great questions make great reporting.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.

The media's job is to question a premise.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.