Brian Stelter Quotes

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

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.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

Profiles aren't journalism.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

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

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

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

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.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

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

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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.

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

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.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

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