When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective.
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.