Quotes About Reporting

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

Male sexual abuse of children happens more often and is reported more often than female abuse, but female sexual coercion of children must be seen as just as horrendous as male abuse. And feminist movement must critique women who abuse as harshly as we critique male abuse.

we the people should expect integrity from the news media and unbiased reporting of newsworthy events.

Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

Bird wondered how newspapers could get things so utterly wrong, then pondered how many of his own prejudices and ideas had been shaped by similarly mistaken journalism.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. I would rather be reported by my bitterest enemy among philosophers than by a friend innocent of philosophy.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.