Neutral Reporting Quotes

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

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

We don't get paid to cheer lead for Donald Trump. We're just paid to cover him.

I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to take a stand one way or the other on a political issue, to damage one particular party or help another.

The Newspaper wants me to by neutral with respect to Germany, as if anyone could be neutral in this war.

I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.

Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.