Quotes About Reporting

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's only for 60 seconds, max.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working.

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

A free press is one where it's ok to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence.

Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly

I reported to headquarters: 'You know you're working with a real war criminal?' The answer comes back: 'Yes, we know all about it. But he's still valuable.

Even if you don't approve of Donald Trump's policies and demeanor, you should support honest reporting. The man is not Satan.

TV can keep you honest because the viewers really do listen. People who have succeeded in this have shown the audience how hard they work and that their reporting is really worthwhile.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.