Marguerite Duras Quotes

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

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.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

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.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

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 want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Profiles aren't journalism.

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

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

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.