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• By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

  Ron Suskind

  Book, Fall, Media

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• If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, Loss, Office

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• 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.

  Daniel Silva

  Country, Fall, Practice

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• Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

  Judith Miller

  Flaws, Source, Should

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• 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

  Years, Two Year Olds, Dating

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.

  Scott Glenn

  Jobs, Writing, Wisconsin

  "Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.

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• An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

  Morris Graves

  Men, Artist, Design

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• As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

  Michael Connelly

  Jobs, Ears, Capture

  "Michael Connelly on Writing for Men". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Moving, Political

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Russia, America, Lessons

  Chicago Sun-Times, December 13, 1987.

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• It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

  James Cameron

  Simple, Long Ago, Way

  James Cameron (1987). “An Indian Summer”, p.147, Penguin Books India

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• I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Views

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

  Bill Keller

  Ideas, Giving, Competition

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Important, Towns

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Thinking, Events

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.

  David E. Hoffman

  Thinking, Names, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

  JoAnn Ross

  Tragedy, Feds, Humans

  JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Stars, Men, World

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• I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

  Walter Cronkite

  Writing, Skills, News

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Writing, Men, Issues

  "If Women Ran Hollywood: Joel McHale, 'New Girl's' Liz Meriwether and Kurt Sutter Answer". The Hollywood Reporte Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 12, 2012.

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• As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

  Jill Abramson

  Frustration, Past, Careers

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• There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Trying, President, Administration

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• I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

  Michael Hastings

  Want, Generations, Greatest Generation

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• A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

  Susan Cheever

  Motherhood, Men, Careers

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• I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Life Changing, Acting, Female

  "TV news in the 50s was more thrilling than The Hour" by Lynne Reid Banks, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2011.

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