Bob Kane Quotes

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

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

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

Stop pretending journalists are anything other than the Hillary PR team.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

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

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

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.

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

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