Tim Hetherington Quotes

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

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

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

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.

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.

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.

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.

While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

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

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.

Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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.

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.