Quotes About Reporting

A force of two hundred cleaners—160 women, and forty men—reported to Brown. There were cleaners on duty twenty-four hours a day, but the bulk of the janitorial work was done after normal business hours. All the floors were cleaned at least once a day.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

The newspapers only repeat the side their purchasers like: the favourable arguments are set out, elaborated, illustrated; the adverse arguments maimed, misstated, confused.

Thoreau said that there are two kinds of writing: one reports the event; the other is the event itself. This is another version of show-don't-tell. One is at arm's length; the other is right in your face, in your heart, in your senses. When you read the event itself, you forget that you're reading — you're experiencing it. And we write and we rewrite to discover how to do this with every story.

Tuchman's Law: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to- tenfold." Barbara Tuchman Foreward to A Distant Mirror Published 1978

The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.

In history this is exactly the same as in the daily newspaper. The normal does not make news.

von Kluck's cavalry reconnaissance, with that marvelous human capacity to see what you expect to see even if it is not there, duly reported the British to be disembarking at Ostend, Calais, and Dunkirk on August 13.

Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

Producers of TV newsmagazines routinely let emotional accounts trump objective information.

False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

So many times in the middle of an interview I've had people say, 'Can we go off the record?'

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

In covering breaking news, there's no better way than using a helicopter.

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.

as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice.

The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies. What is really at issue is the right to report contemporary events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.

I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts.

It is usually known that newspapers do not say the truth, but it is also known that they cannot tell whoppers.

I am not Indian, but I have lived and worked in Mumbai, visited on multiple reporting trips, and celebrated more than one Holi there.