Quotes About Coverage

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.

I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous - from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.

Do I believe that their coverage is slanted and biased? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. A majority of reporters are liberal.

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

It's a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

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.

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.

I'm reporting on a world at war.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.

When I was first assigned to cover the Republican presidential race in 2007, that meant covering John McCain. He was the next in line, and at that point that mattered in the GOP.

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

If only a few games are televised and you don't have a follow-up, like no live coverage of the Sri Lanka series after the Australia series, where we did so well, things will not improve.

We like to keep it short. If a story warrants more in-depth coverage, we will do it.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

Over fifteen million Americans lack any health insurance, and some thirty million are underinsured because of high deductibles and copayments.