Michael Cudlitz Quotes

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

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

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

I am not a rabid partisan.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

Don't denounce, just state the facts.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

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.

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 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.

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

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.

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