Quotes About Reporting

Il giornalismo è una missione.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

But what looked like a more diverse and open media world, where anyone could be a reporter or reach an audience, is turning into one where a very few companies control the information pipelines.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

Journalism is organized gossip.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

And when he goes to heavenTo Saint Peter he will tell:Another Marine reporting, sir;I've served my time in hell!

Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.