Garrett Graff Quotes

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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.

When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

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

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

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

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

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

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

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

The Constitution does not guarantee objectivity of the press …. The question … is not whether news shall be unprejudiced but rather whose prejudices shall color the news.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.