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  • The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

  • Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

    Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

    Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library
  • 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.

    Jobs   Views   Editors  
    Source: www.campaignsandelections.com
  • The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

    "On Hallam's Constitutional History" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

    Ideas   Television   Tvs  
  • 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.

    Stupid   Silly   Talking  
    "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.
  • He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

    Art   Children   Book  
    Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

  • I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you're doing a climate story, talk to climate scientists. The best climate stories are done by the people who talk to climate scientists.

    People   Advice   Climate  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  • 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.'

    David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc
  • Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

    Jobs   Real   Editors  
  • When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

    Mistake   Needs   News  
  • Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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

  • In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

    Boys   Alaska   Media  
    "Chasing Sarah: The boys behind the bus" by Michelle Malkin, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 31, 2011.
  • 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

    Jobs   One Day   Body  
  • As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

  • I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

    "Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
  • I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

    "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
  • I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

  • Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

    "David Carr, New York Times columnist, dies suddenly after collapsing in office" by Ben Doherty, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.
  • My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

    Running   People   Forget  
    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 04, 2011
  • It used to be that conservatives who were in government, like myself, we would get what we felt was unfair coverage, we'd go home, we would grumble, we would complain about it, but we actually wouldn't say anything to the reporter or to the reporters while they're asking us additional questions.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

    Ghouls   Wife   Clear  
    J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books
  • 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.

    Country   Fall   Practice  
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