Eliot Spitzer Quotes

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

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.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

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

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

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

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

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

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

It is sometimes difficult to understand the intensity of our public critics. Criticism of our efficiency is one thing, criticism of our responsibility quite another… We are an important arm of government, a legitimate object of public concern …. I find it most painful, however, when public debate lessens our usefulness to the nation by casting doubt on our integrity and objectivity. If we are not believed, we have no purpose.

We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's the truth.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

It was funny because on the day that I joined the club, the newspaper that broke the news was one that people don't always trust or believe. Then, when I signed, and there were pictures of me and Sir Alex Ferguson, people believed it.

I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.