Quotes About Reporting

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

And terror's first cousin: media coverage.

Misfortune is the mother's milk of journalism

A ty zabija?e? ludzi"?.-"Raz musia?em dobija?. Ale zazwyczaj zajmowa?em si? wywiadem, pisa?em raporty".-"A co czu?e?, jak strzela?e? do tych ludzi?". Odpowiedzia?em bez wachania: "To samo, co czu?em, patrz?c, jak inni strzelaj?. Gdy istnieje taka konieczno??, staje si? niewa?ne, kto to robi. Poza tym uwa?am, ?e patrz??, ponosz? tak? sam? odpowiedzialno?? jak ci, co strzelaj?".

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.

faith among the rank and file that everyone above superintendent has had their sense of irony surgically removed. Often the word "proactive" is added at the front to create a kind of litany. O lead us intelligently into the valley of the shadow of limited resources so that we might make our crime targets before the end of the Home Office reporting period—Amen.

Cherchez la femme" is good advice for investigative reporters. "Follow the money" is even better advice.

Imitation docks and an oil storage complex were constructed by set builders from Shepperton Studios following plans drawn up by the architect Basil Spence. King George VI's tour of this impressive and entirely unusable installation was duly reported in the press for the Germans to read.

I asked for daily reports on developments at major financial firms and,

I knew that these more specialized reporters were best equipped to understand and then explain what we were doing and why. Other media would pick up on their reporting.

We were more likely to see an unfair or inaccurate story from journalists who did not usually cover the Fed and were, consequently, less well informed.

Nick Denton's core insight: in the newspaper era, the best stories were sometimes the ones reporters told one another in bars, rather than the ones they printed.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

All the media are horrible.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action.

I'm not involved, not involved, I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.