Reporters Quotes - Page 12

• A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

  Jack Smith

  Journalism, Skeptic, Remains

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• The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

  William Greider

  Drama, Political, Events

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• 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.

  Gene Hackman

  Uncles, Writing, Grandfather

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• I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

  David Gergen

  Thinking, Issues, Judging

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• There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Hollywood, Paper

  "17 Questions With Jean-Claude Van Damme". Interview with Bertan Budak, www.askmen.com. February 13, 2009.

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• Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

  Robert Orben

  Listening, Politics, Painting

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

  Dave Mustaine

  Hair, Politics, Conventions

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• 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.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Air, Done, May

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• 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.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Objectivity, Auras, Way

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• 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.

  Edna Buchanan

  Editors, Three, Never Trust

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Men, World

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• My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

  Dwight Gooden

  Baseball, Years, Two

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• I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

  Peter Jennings

  Scholar

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• I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Rocks, Years

  Declaration, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• 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.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• Reporters aren't actually people!

  Troy Duffy

  People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Hurt, Friendly, Want

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• I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

  Illeana Douglas

  Cowboy, Vintage, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

  Matt Drudge

  Voice, Citizens, Eras

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Writing, Trying, Care

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• Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Memories, Writing, Long

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

  Amy Goodman

  War, Government, Parades

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• My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

  Jeff Gannon

  Jobs, Writing, Past

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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Suspense

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Joe Arpaio

  Giving, Stories, Way

  "Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?" by William Finnegan, www.newyorker.com. July 20, 2009.

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