Dan Rather Quotes

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

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

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

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a young adult.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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.

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

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

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

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.