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  • Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

    Media   Doe   Journalism  
  • Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

    Real   Media   Play  
  • It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

    Wine   Nursing   White  
  • I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

  • A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

    In Observer 26 Nov. 1961
  • These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

  • I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

    Writing   College   Years  
  • Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

    Time   Business   Reading  
    Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet
  • People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

    The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.
  • If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

  • Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

    Writing   Light   Years  
  • Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the globe.

    Adventure   Risk   News  
  • I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  • Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  • 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.

    Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.637, Lulu.com
  • I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

    Stupid   Mean   Bores You  
    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International
  • The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

    Wisdom   Knowing   People  
    "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)
  • I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  • As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

    Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
  • I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

    Men   Hands   Honor  
  • A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

  • I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

  • I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

  • My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

  • 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.

  • Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

    Trying   Want   Causes  
  • The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

    "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.
  • There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

    Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.164, Penguin
  • Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

    Forever   Facts   Stories  
    Esquire, June 1960
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