“Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.” GivingI CanLiteratureCan DoViewsPiecesInformationJudgmentFunctionJournalist Author:Jim Lehrer
“On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.” HelpingLiteratureStuffHugeReaderBasesGray Author:Jim Lehrer
“Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.” KnowsTurnsLiteratureKnow Me Author:Jim Lehrer
“I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.” LiteraturePrintReporters Author:Jim Lehrer
“People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.” PeopleIfsWantLiteratureWorryNewsSorryI'm SorrySay Anything Author:Jim Lehrer
“My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.” NeedsHas BeensLiteratureMy OwnViewsJournalism Author:Jim Lehrer
“I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.” StoriesLiteraturePracticeInvolvedAskingJournalismExpertsReportersAsking Questions Author:Jim Lehrer
“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.” TwoTogetherLiteratureFourReaderCome UpViewersGreat Faith Author:Jim Lehrer
“I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.” ThinkingKindLiteratureAll KindsDiscourse Author:Jim Lehrer
“If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.” PeopleIfsWantLiteratureAvailableBellsPlaces To Go Author:Jim Lehrer
“If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsLongI CanCareLiteratureCan DoDemocracyInformationParticularLuckyDon't CareI Don't CareI Can Do ItElectorate Author:Jim Lehrer
“We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.” Life IsLiteratureMilitaryJournalistCombatFewerLife Is LikeMilitary Experience Author:Jim Lehrer
