Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

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

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

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

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

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.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

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 have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

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

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

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

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

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it.