Evan Sayet Quotes

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

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.

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

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

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 don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a young adult.

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

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

Is journalism a profession that serves the public by maintaining high standards, or is it a social construct that should be redesigned to directly serve certain social goods? Some argue that all journalism involves bias, either hidden or revealed. But it is one thing to say that objectivity and fairness are ultimately unreachable. It is another to cease grasping for them. That would be a world of purely private truths, in which the boldest liars and demagogues would thrive.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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 by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.