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Quotes About Reporting

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
~ Rowan D. Williams
Of all the people insistently expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing headlines to trample him flat.
~ Russell Baker
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
~ Russell Baker
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~ Russell Baker
I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.
~ Vince McMahon
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
~ Andy Rooney
I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.
~ Leon Golub
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
~ Anna Quindlen
But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?
~ Anne Rice
What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experiences they collected during their time on earth. The
~ Anne Tyler
India's rape law, enshrined in the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, placed the burden of the victim to establish her 'good character' and prove that a rape had occurred, which left her open to discredit by opposing counsel. Many rapes were never reported as a result of the humiliation to which this system subjected the victims.
~ Shashi Tharoor
I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.
~ Sheri Fink
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
~ Terry Pratchett
Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.
~ Trevor Noah
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
~ John le Carre
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
~ Joseph Lelyveld
Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.
~ John Feinstein
DESEGREGATE THE BUSES WITH THIS 7 POINT PROGRAM: 1. Pray for guidance. 2. Be courteous and friendly. 3. Be neat and clean. 4. Avoid loud talk. 5. Do not argue. 6. Report incidents immediately. 7. Overcome evil with good. Sponsored by Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Rev. A. L. Davis, Pres. Rev. J. E. Poindexter, Secretary
~ John Howard Griffin
The greatest trick that powerful interest groups ever pulled was convincing the world that everyone who detects and reports their activities is a conspiracy theorist.
~ John Leake
the media had its narrative before it knew any of the facts
~ John Lott
lesson in that for us in the media: if, instead of, or in addition to focusing so much on lofty constitutional issues being debated in the Supreme Court, we were to depute our correspondents once a month on a randomly selected day to a randomly selected local court, and report what happened in that court during that day—that would give readers and viewers a so much truer picture of the state of justice in our country. And may even spur some improvements.
~ Arun Shourie
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon