Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

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'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

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

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

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

I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.