Quotes About Reporting

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

It's more important to get the story correct than to get it first.

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

I covered the 2016 campaign and covered that in a very traditional way. I was on the road, I want to say, like 340 days out of the year.

I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

My mom likes to say I've been covering news since the day I was born - longer if you count my time in utero.

In the 24-hour news cycle of cable, we don't always get it right.

I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.