Reporters Quotes

• Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Activist, Leftists

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• You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Thinking, Makeup

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13 ,1997.

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• If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  David Halberstam

  Stories, World, Sin

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• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  Jack Germond

  Heart, Editors, Paper

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• Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

  Marie Colvin

  Inspirational, Honesty, Believe

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• Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.

  Michael Barone

  Party, Unions, Pennies

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

  Michael Crichton

  Asking Questions, Self, Differences

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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  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.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  America, Choices, Would Be

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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• 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.

  Roger Ailes

  Friendly, May, Interviews

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Ben Bradlee

  Newspapers, Given, Motive

  "Deep Throat Revealed: Ben Bradlee". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Hurt, People, Suffering

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• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Dark, News, Strategy

  "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. August 12, 2004.

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

  Peggy Noonan

  Adults, Want, Journalism

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Media, Diagnosis

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• As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Knowing, Agendas, Literature

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• If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Writing, Shows

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• News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

  Walter Cronkite

  America, News, Left

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• 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.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Ideas, Rooms

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• When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

  Paul Simon

  Vices, Today, Whiskey

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• In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand outside and chant anti-Romney slogans. Well, who says President Obama isn't creating any new jobs?

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Creating, New Job

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• 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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Political, Politics, Today

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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