Nora Ephron Quotes

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

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 good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

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

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

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

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a young adult.

As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.

I'm supposed to be neutral when I do my job. But I'm a fan and I have my favorites.

A lot of journalists don't want to conflate their own opinions with those of their employers… With a YouTube video, you can be as personal or as journalistic as you want.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

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

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you. But when you're sort of living with people who are there, we just press record and let them tell the story.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.