Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

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

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

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

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

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

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

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

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

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

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

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

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

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.