Ken Auletta Quotes

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

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

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

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

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

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

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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.

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

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.