Dana Loesch Quotes

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

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

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

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

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.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

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

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

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

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 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.

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

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.