Journalistic Ethics Quotes

“What do you mean, a goddess?” Alec questioned irritably.
“She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

“I have more respect for a ‘call girl’ that sells her body but not her soul, than for political prostitutes that sell their soul but not their body.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Exposing filth and discovering the truth are two different things. The former is reporting, the latter is journalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“I have always thought of objectivity and impartiality as complex, messy concepts, tending to agree with BBC journalist Nick Robinsons view that impartiality is something to believe in and strive for but which you must accept you will almost certainly never quite achieve.”
― Richard Evans, Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most Famous Journalist