Bill O'Reilly Quotes

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

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

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

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

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

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

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.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

How do you know the news is reliable if you didn’t gather it yourself?

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.