Pat Oliphant Quotes

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

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

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

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.

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.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

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.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

It is the business of the journalist … to stand in permanent Opposition.

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

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

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

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

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.

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.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art