Reporting Quotes

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas Sowell

Business, Important, Understand

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
Harvey Fierstein

Smart, Anyone, Turn

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Roger Mudd

Character, Judge, Political

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle

Him, President, Benefit

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Jessica Savitch

Work, Successful, Matter

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
Julian Assange

Corruption, Police, Early

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.
Susan Orlean

Love, Writing, Pieces

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
William J. Clinton

Today, Growth, Number

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
Charles Kuralt

Life, Work, Time

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
Christopher Lasch

News, Events, Understood

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
Gene Tierney

Time, Same, Sometimes

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.
Ron Fournier

Politics, Best, Moving

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather

Health, Long, Somewhere

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Dan Rather

Great, Important, Public

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
Bob Woodward

Food, Smart, Fight

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
Thomas Friedman

Research, Substitute

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
Dan Rather

Someone, Political, Nothing

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
Jim Lehrer

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Brit Hume

Done, Night, President

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
Bob Woodward

Yourself, True, Long

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
Calvin Trillin

Book, Tour, Easier

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
Guy Kawasaki

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales

Done, Matter, Face

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
Eric Alterman

Great, Stars, Times

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
Eric Alterman

Angry, Trying, Vote

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
Richard Russo

Humor, Writing, Risk

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
Leigh Steinberg

Athlete, Chances, Forty

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.
Alexander McCall Smith

Success, Great, Positive

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
Errol Morris

Big, Between, Making

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
Kate Adie

War, Someone, Remember

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