Quotes About Ethics

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

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

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

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

I will not talk to journalists about anything that does not concern my work as a scientist or lecturer.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

There are far too many journalists who are in a rush to be first, instead of being right.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.