William Cullen Bryant Quotes

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

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

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

I was a bad journalist.

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

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

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

In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.

Just like there is nothing wrong with calling out unethical attorneys, there is nothing wrong with calling out unethical journalists.

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

As players we're held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.

Self-importance has ruined more good journalists than bad liquor.

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.