Balanced Reporting Quotes

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Even when “both sides” are presented in the media, seldom are the reasons for each side presented.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

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

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

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.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

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

I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

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.

The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

I don't necessarily take issue with the label 'conservative journalist,' but I never particularly use that to describe myself. But I guess the values and principles that I have may be aligned with issues that are either seen as center or center-right.

I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

Too often reporters covering scientific debates give fringe views equal weight in a misguided attempt to achieve balance.

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

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.