Anderson Cooper Quotes

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

The media's job is to question a premise.

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

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.

It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

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

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing.

ESPN wants to scrutinize everyone, but if they're scrutinized, they run and hide.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

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

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

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.