Brian Stelter Quotes

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.

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.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

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

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

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 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.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

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

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well-researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods.

I'm doing real journalism.

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