Quotes About Reporting

This book will save lives. As I read Bottle of Lies, I was so stunned by the revelations that I tried to think of works of comparable significance, and the first one that came to mind was Silent Spring. What Rachel Carson did for our understanding of the perils facing the environment Katherine Eban has now done for our understanding of the threats to our health from the drugs we take every day. Bottle of Lies is Katherine Eban's masterwork of global investigative reporting.

Your state has been seen, and will be reported on. Only it is necessary that you do not yawn. Or, of course, speak. Discretion in all things in all things is needed. She was reminding them, and she hoped they realised it, that they were not circumcised. The circumlocution expected of a high-born Syrian princess was sometimes a trial to Sara Khatun.

Open the casement and lean out, glowing. All they want to do is report to Austin that you listened to them without apparently having a seizure.

What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!

But the newspapers, they are so inaccurate, I never go by what they say.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?

I covered financial news and Wall Street for a decade.

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

I had no desire to go to Iraq. I never wanted to go to Mosul. I'm not a war correspondent. No part of me thrives on the adrenaline or anything like that.

It's not your job to be warm on the news; you can be empathetic, but you can't emote. That can be difficult sometimes - but it is my job not to cry.

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

Bird, however, insists that my desire for a career in sports reporting has nothing to do with my love of sports. "It's your other love: guys. You want to know what really goes on in the locker room, and you want to get up close and personal with those towel-wrapped hotties." Her theory is a lot closer to the truth than I like to admit, because it makes me seem less than noble in my pursuit of a higher education.