Isa Guha Quotes

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

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

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

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.

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work - people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don't agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective.

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.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

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 think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

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