Graydon Carter Quotes

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

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

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

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.

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

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

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

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

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.

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

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.