Bob Iger Quotes

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

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

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

We are not a paid bunch of bullies. Our job is to get the facts.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

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

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.

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.