Ernie Harwell Quotes

I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

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

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

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

The Newspaper wants me to by neutral with respect to Germany, as if anyone could be neutral in this war.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.

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

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

I'm only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it's nothing personal.

For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.

The truth has no temperature.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

I think people have confidence that I will fairly and accurately represent their point of view to the President, and that I'm not going to put a spin on it, even if I may disagree with it.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.