Chuck Klosterman Quotes

We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

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

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.