Neeraj Kabi Quotes

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

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

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

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

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

We are trained to distinguish between journalism that's short and long, that's responsible and irresponsible, that stands for the right values and stands for the wrong.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

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

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.