Julian Assange Quotes

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

What reporters may increasingly see as a necessity, readers see as a scourge.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

All I know is what I do each and every day and what we do here at CNN, which is all about the facts, asking tough questions, challenging leaders and our own leadership in this country.

As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.