Jorge Ramos Quotes

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

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

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

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.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

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.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

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

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

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

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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

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.

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.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

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.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

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

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

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

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 firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.