Sheri Fink Quotes

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

The truth does not need to be defended.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

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

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

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

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

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