Quotes About Information

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.

Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why places like CNN matter is that it is still important to bring them together, put context around it, and explain it.

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

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.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

When the people believe that the print media and the government-controlled TV are not really reporting what is happening, then people turn away from them, and their next resort is, of course, to access the Internet and what they can get on the Internet.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington.

The message for the smart investor is to watch out. Do not get carried away with news reports and turn smart by pooling information with like-minded investors.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

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

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

In many cases, here we are, putting out reports that we're spending $100 million a year on, and we're telling the public, 'Oh, you don't have access to them.'

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.