Quotes About Reporting

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

the West European media report almost nothing that they associate with America in a neutral, matter-of-fact manner. Most things engender a palpable tone of irritation, derision, annoyance, dismissal.

Erbring's research demonstrates that the German media liberally and regularly resort to negative stereotypes about America and Americans that they would not use in the case of reporting on any other country, certainly never on anything pertaining to Germany.

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

The media's job is to question a premise.

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

How drab people are, especially from the press.

I really hate press.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.