Robert Fisk Quotes

In the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

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.

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

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

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

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

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

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.

Journalism is not writing.

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