Willie Stargell Quotes

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

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

I warn my readers against my biases.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.

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

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

All the news that fits we print.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.