Andrew Heyward Quotes

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

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

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

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

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

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

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

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

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

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

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

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

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.