Quotes about Reporters

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund. Votes: 4

Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage - deciding what's important to cover and what isn't - and for contextualizing, analyzing and such. Votes: 4

Reporters aren't actually people! Votes: 3

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. Votes: 3

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy. Votes: 3

Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources. Votes: 3

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters. Votes: 3

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings. Votes: 3

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players. Votes: 3

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview. Votes: 3

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy. Votes: 3

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. Votes: 3

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life. Votes: 3

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview. Votes: 3

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Votes: 3

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story. Votes: 3

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times. Votes: 3

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. Votes: 3

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him. Votes: 3

Reporters aren't stupid. We were standing around talking about which of the 900 health-care proposals that nobody's going to accept is that day's hot news. They know how silly that is. But that's what they do. Votes: 3

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt. Votes: 3

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all. Votes: 3

Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news. Votes: 3

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career. Votes: 3

Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did. Votes: 3

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times. Votes: 3

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. Votes: 3

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people. Votes: 3

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting story that their editor is going to like and that's going to further their careers, they're going to give you more ink and cover you. Votes: 3

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. Votes: 1

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Votes: 1

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. Votes: 1

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. Votes: 1

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars. Votes: 1

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. Votes: 1

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate. Votes: 1

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. Votes: 1

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.' Votes: 1

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Votes: 1

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. Votes: 1

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. Votes: 1

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer. Votes: 1

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. Votes: 1

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. Votes: 1

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was. Votes: 1

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society. Votes: 1

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations. Votes: 1

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. Votes: 1

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. Votes: 1

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of. Votes: 1

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. Votes: 1

What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them. Votes: 1

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. Votes: 1

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job. Votes: 1

Lexicographers are language reporters. Votes: 0

I got rid of all those reporters. Votes: 0

Most reporters are sheep in wolves' clothing. Votes: 0

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. Votes: 0

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. Votes: 0

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? Votes: 0

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics. Votes: 0

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record. Votes: 0

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center. Votes: 0

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters. Votes: 0

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate. Votes: 0

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions! Votes: 0

Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious. Votes: 0

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize. Votes: 0

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth. Votes: 0

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions. Votes: 0

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters. Votes: 0

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. Votes: 0

Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities. Votes: 0

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors. Votes: 0

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. Votes: 0

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair. Votes: 0

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. Votes: 0

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. Votes: 0

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down. Votes: 0

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. Votes: 0

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue. Votes: 0

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there. Votes: 0

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters. Votes: 0

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. Votes: 0

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. Votes: 0

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories. Votes: 0

As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin. Votes: 0

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines. Votes: 0

Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters. Votes: 0

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. Votes: 0

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. Votes: 0

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them. Votes: 0

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart. Votes: 0

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. Votes: 0

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials Votes: 0

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. Votes: 0

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went. Votes: 0

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. Votes: 0

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'. Votes: 0

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. Votes: 0

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Votes: 0

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point. Votes: 0

Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view. Votes: 0

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers. Votes: 0

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience. Votes: 0

[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile. Votes: 0

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. Votes: 0

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story. Votes: 0

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. Votes: 0

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. Votes: 0

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. Votes: 0

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. Votes: 0

Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them. Votes: 0

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion. Votes: 0

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters. Votes: 0

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write. Votes: 0

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo. Votes: 0

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters. Votes: 0

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating. Votes: 0

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized. Votes: 0

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts. Votes: 0

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room. Votes: 0

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. Votes: 0

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. Votes: 0

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers. Votes: 0

I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters. Votes: 0

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage. Votes: 0

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways. Votes: 0

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information. Votes: 0

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter. Votes: 0

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time. Votes: 0

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly. Votes: 0

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. Votes: 0

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow. Votes: 0

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish. Votes: 0

Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels. Votes: 0

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic. Votes: 0

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do. Votes: 0

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A. Votes: 0

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama. Votes: 0

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. Votes: 0

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs. Votes: 0

There are a number of things that came out of Donald Trump so-called policy speech at Gettysburg that most of the reporters were saying were real positive things. Votes: 0

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access. Votes: 0

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation Votes: 0

Donald Trump showed his birth certificate to reporters. Who cares about his birth certificate? I want to know if that thing on his head has had its vaccinations. Votes: 0

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country. Votes: 0

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold. Votes: 0

You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it. Votes: 0

Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today. Votes: 0

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. Votes: 0

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories. Votes: 0

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss. Votes: 0

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue. Votes: 0

Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance... Votes: 0

We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals, Votes: 0

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.' Votes: 0

I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about, Votes: 0

Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters. Votes: 0

No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters. Votes: 0

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K. Votes: 0

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K. Votes: 0

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. Votes: 0

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying. Votes: 0

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth. Votes: 0

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there. Votes: 0

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them? Votes: 0

Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation. Votes: 0

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way. Votes: 0

With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms. Votes: 0

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself. Votes: 0

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events. Votes: 0

The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion. Votes: 0

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way. Votes: 0

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are. Votes: 0

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Votes: 0

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial. Votes: 0

All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work. I believe this is vital to the success and growth of newspapers. Votes: 0

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives. Votes: 0

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. Votes: 0

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are. Votes: 0

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters. Votes: 0

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it. Votes: 0

I would turn the question around to people, especially those reporters who wrote some of those articles. Are you advocating our daughters shouldn't learn self-defense? Because that's what was taught at that rally. Votes: 0

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. Votes: 0

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are. Votes: 0

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information. Votes: 0

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. Votes: 0

I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on. Votes: 0

One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him. Votes: 0

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. Votes: 0

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters Votes: 0

Michele Bachmann told reporters that she will lead the nation in prayer if she is elected president. You know if she is elected president, we all better be praying. She doesn't have to lead us. Votes: 0

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. Votes: 0

I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman Votes: 0

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful. Votes: 0

[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush. Votes: 0

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Votes: 0