Tom Robbins Quotes

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

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.

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.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

As a pundit, it's important to tell the viewer something they might not know, be unbiased and not sit on the fence.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

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.

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.

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

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

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

We are not a paid bunch of bullies. Our job is to get the facts.

In the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

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

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

I think journalism is important.

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.

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.