Eliot Spitzer Quotes

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

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.

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

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

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.