Willie Geist Quotes

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

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

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

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.

I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

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 don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

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.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

The 'Guardian''s unique ownership structure safeguards our editorial independence from commercial or political interference and means we can reinvest any money we receive into this journalism that matters so much.

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

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

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

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

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

It is the business of the journalist … to stand in permanent Opposition.

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

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

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

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.