Dave Barry Quotes

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

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

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

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

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

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

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

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.

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

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion as a young adult.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

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

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

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

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

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