Reporting Quotes

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. (Graham Hancock)
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. View quote
Charles Portis
Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
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. View quote
Brit Hume
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. View quote
Charles Kuralt
I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night. View quote
Lisa Guerrero
I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature-the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society-it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there. View quote
Susan Sontag
They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." ... WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, ASSHOLE! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect! View quote
Lewis Black
I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty. View quote
John Kerry
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research. (Thomas Friedman)
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. View quote
Bob Woodward
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. View quote
Bob Woodward
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life,” "God,” "soul,” "cross,” etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy. View quote
James Surowiecki
If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean. View quote
Bob Schieffer
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them. View quote
Toby Young
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. (Amy Waldman)
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. View quote
Billy Crudup
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. View quote
Catherine Crier
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand. View quote
David Talbot
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. View quote
Gene Tierney