Dana Bash Quotes

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.

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.

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

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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

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.

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

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.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

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.

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.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

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.

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

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.

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

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

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

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.