Reporters Quotes - Page 18

• The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?

  Stephen Colbert

  Real, Mean, Names

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• I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.

  Katia Winter

  Dream, Fun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

  Katia Winter

  Interesting, Gossip, Admire

  Source: collider.com

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• The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

  Michael Schudson

  Stories, Journalism, Bases

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• The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Brother, Done, Rookies

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• Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

  Tom Rachman

  Editors, Laughing, Hypocrisy

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• Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

  Jay Leno

  Vocabulary, Issues, Tolerance

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• Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.

  Celestine Sibley

  Writing, People, Causes

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• I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

  Lola Alvarez Bravo

  Cameras, Fighter, Fooling Around

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• Lexicographers are language reporters.

  Erin McKean

  Lexicographer, Language

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• In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.

  Monique Truong

  Couple, Home, Emotional

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• Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Home, Atheism

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• By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Writing, Editors, Scary

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• I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Believe, People

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Wind, Office

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• I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

  Leon Golub

  Art, Thinking, Civilization

  Leon Golub (1997). “Leon Golub: do paintings bite? : selected texts 1948-1996”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Trying, Buckets

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• President Bush got a little upset with a reporter for calling him 'sir' instead of 'Mr. President.' Man, how upset is he going to be after the election when they start calling him George again?

  Jay Leno

  Men, Upset, President

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• Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

  Kara Swisher

  Narrative, Posts

  "Kara Swisher discusses life, D: All Things Digital". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

  Jimmy Carter

  Loyalty, Tired, Night

  Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales

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• People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Life, Real, Drama

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

  Jodi Kantor

  Political, I've Learned, Predictions

  "Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

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• In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.

  Mariane Pearl

  Reality, Justice, Everyday

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• To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

  RuPaul

  Thinking, Cracks, Television

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