Quotes About Press

It'd be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American - that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

Sometimes in the moment when I'm doing a press conference, one of my favorite things is to watch reporters.

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

If you're following candidates in a campaign, you get on their plane, and what they're generally doing is they're dividing the cost of that charter flight by the number of reporters they're carrying aboard. In effect, the press is buying them that campaign flight.

Every exchange between reporters and officials is important - that's why every State press briefing is put into the archives.

When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.

So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask them anyway just to see what kind of reaction they can get out of you.

I've always been a guy who didn't mind speaking to reporters.

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates - and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.

I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

To the left and at the end of our small wing that held eight prisoners was an NYPD officer named Gilberto Valle, who'd been charged with conspiring to cook and eat his girlfriend. The press had dubbed him the "Cannibal Cop.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

A free press is one where it's ok to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence.