Reporters Quotes

• 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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• When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

  Theodore White

  Typewriters

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• Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

  Michael Jackson

  Special, Olympics, Criticize

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• If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Presidential, Ifs

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

  Rod Dreher

  Running, People, Three

  "Boston Reporters Join Long List of Heroes" by Stephanie Slade, www.usnews.com. April 16, 2013.

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

  Derek Tangye

  Art, News, Journalism

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• 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.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Would Be, Internet

  "Walter Cronkite lays down his pen", www.today.com. August 17, 2004.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• [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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Issues, Environmental, Politics

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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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• I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old.

  James Risen

  Writing, Boys, Government

  "James Risen's risk of prison means journalism is being criminalised" by Lindsey Bever, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

  Stephen Colbert

  Writing, Fearless, Administration

  "Stephen Colbert and George Bush Lampoon President Bush" by James Joyner, www.outsidethebeltway.com. April 30, 2006.

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