“ As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
- 2.9K
“ She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it. ”
- Paul O’Neil- Copy
- 709
“ Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job… but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter. ”
- Andrea Mitchell- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life. ”
- Joseph Lelyveld- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 662
“ I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter. ”
- Garrett M. Graff- Copy
- 4K
“ War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ”
- Amy Goodman- Copy
- 1.5K
“ While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth. ”
- Judd Rose- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. ”
- Gay Talese- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
- 3.9K
“ When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukelele. ”
- Ben Bagdikian- Copy
- 540
“ The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. ”
- Joseph W. Alsop Jr.- Copy
- 1.5K
“ He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. ”
- Richard Branson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians. ”
- Owen Arthur- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. ”
- Max Hastings- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
- 2K
“ A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea. ”
- Phyllis Battelle- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. ”
- Walter Cronkite- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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