Quotes About Reporting

'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson.

Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

I do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.

The media is really failing the American people.

There is no fairness out there. There is no balance in the media.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.

There is certainly no want of journalistic ambition among the purveyors of what is now called 'long-form,' nor of novelistic technique brought to bear on nonfiction, nor of outrage.

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Most of us will agree that my former medium, television news, has been reduced to tawdry entertainment.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Vanpelt was a hack. More often than not, she chose the low-hanging fruit, because she was lazy, not interested in doing any real work to uncover facts. She sought out the sensational stories that would get her face front and center on the six and eleven o'clock newscasts.

Mills, who had become a nightly fixture on CNN, Fox