objectivity

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.

Destiny is a right destination for every nation with a mission of destiny.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Subjective truth is an oxymoron; objective truth is redundant. Subjective truth is feathers in a wind tunnel, blowing anywhere and everywhere. Objective truth is an anvil, bolted to the floor of the wind tunnel. Subjective truth is your truth and my truth; objective truth is Jesus Christ__mmovable, immutable.

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

Many of my colleagues operate from a mistaken notion that rational thought can come from only objective discourse, devoid of emotions. To me, speaking from the heart and with passion is not antagonistic to reason.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

Perhaps we don__ progress, because there are so many views _ so many paths to peace and happiness _ that we get hung up on each path__ differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can__ look at them objectively.

It doesn__ take objectivity to know what you want, and you__e not objective enough to know what you need.

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.