Henry A. Grunwald Quotes

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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.

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

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.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

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

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

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

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

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

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

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 was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Most good newspapers don't set out to offend readers. But newspapers shouldn’t avoid controversy, and if they don’t occasionally a offend readers, they’re probably not doing their job.