Marguerite Duras Quotes

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

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

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.

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

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

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

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.