Jim Walton Quotes

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Facilities have been given me here as never before, the Interstate Commerce People even offering me a desk and stenographer, with full admission to all their published reports and letters. It certainly shows how … a greater care for truth and fairness, which I have tried to attain in my articles, gets hold of people.

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

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.