Glenn Greenwald Quotes

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

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.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.