Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Quotes

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

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.

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

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

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

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

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

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

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

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

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

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

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

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.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

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.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.