Jack Ma Quotes

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

I think it's always really important in broadcast to be able to get different views across and not just go down one route, because that's essentially journalism.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

'CBS Sunday Morning' goes by its own pulse, a far cry from the fast-paced, Trump-obsessed cable news world. It's quality. It's often uplifting, even the hard topics it looks at.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

As an anchor, I want to make sure we're exploring all angles on a story. The viewer can make up their own mind.

Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented both sides. But most of what we're living through now has multiple sides, and those sides, if you take the extreme oppositional views, have to be brought together for people to make a decision about how to act on the information.

You always need to make sure that you're looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the story, know what's happening. You have to write for everyone.

Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.

To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

The media caters to our TL;DR-afflicted nation with over-simplified, lowest common denominator journalism which completely fails us when the issues are not black-or-white or when the answers require caveats. Nuanced discussions don’t make attention grabbing headlines or dramatic journalistic copy so media reporting disproportionately accentuates extreme perspectives to create the conflict-drama that drives viewers and readership. The resulting rhetoric polarizes rather than convinces.

The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.