Reporters Quotes - Page 9

• From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Views, Genius

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1012, Wordsworth Editions

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• For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.

  Chris Rock

  Hurt, Jobs, Laughter

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

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• I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Home, Europe

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• I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

  David Remnick

  Years, Culture, Four

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Russia and Putin". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I decided very early that I was going to be
  a reporter, that I would not cheer for the
  team. I don't denigrate people who do it.
  It's fine.

  Ernie Harwell

  Cheer, Team, People

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• The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

  Dexter Filkins

  Ignorance, Army, Years

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• It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Night, Thinking, Looks

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• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

  David Halberstam

  Reflection, Degrees, Doe

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library

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• It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

  Saul Perlmutter

  Morning, Interesting, Wake Up

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• I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.

  Sarah

  Sorry, Communication, Expectations

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• There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Father, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.164, Penguin

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• As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

  Martin Cooper

  New York, Moving, Phones

  "The day the mobile phone went public 38 years ago, leaving New Yorkers bemused and bewildered" by Graham Smith, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

  Low Thia Khiang

  People, World, Void

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• Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.

  Jerry Siegel

  Crush, Girl, School

  "In the beginning" by Jerry Siegel, 1983.

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• A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Journalist

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• Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

  Allan Sloan

  Thinking, Columnists, Reports

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• When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if it was not true that among white people a man is respected because he has many horses, many houses? When the reporter replied that was indeed true, Sitting Bull then said that his people respected him because he kept nothing for himself.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Horse, Men, White

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• Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

  Bob Schieffer

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

  Julian Bond

  Racism, Black, Racist

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• In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

  Laurence Silberman

  War, Iraq, President

  "The Dangerous Lie That 'Bush Lied'" by Laurence Silberman, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 9, 2015.

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• The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

  Lance Ito

  Cameras, Prejudice, Analysis

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• REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Way, Tempest

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Real, Thinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Patience, Lying, Way

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• First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

  Maria Bartiromo

  New York, Google, Firsts

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