Quotes About Reporting

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die.

I don't remember what it stood for," Ballard said. "I was on patrol in Pacific Division and I remember filling out the forms on the MDC. Geographic something or other." "Geographic Reporting and Safety Program," Bosch said. "The guys down in the ASS Office really worked some OT on it." "Ass Office?" "The Acronym Selection Section. You never heard of it? They got about ten guys down there full-time.

It was the era of fake news and reporters being labeled by those in power as enemies of the people. Newspapers were folding right and left and some said the industry was in a death spiral. Meanwhile, there was a rise in biased and unchecked reporting and media sites, the line increasingly blurring between impartial and agenda-based journalism.

Joel Bremmer, Times Staff Writer

Just so you know, I'm guessing she had no doubt about whether she was raped, okay, McGee? Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don't give a shit and don't view rape as much of a crime.

I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

Algunos analistas de medios de comunicación han advertido que en los informativos de hoy en día no se comprueba nada de nada. Se redacta la noticia y se busca una nueva, afirma un periodista. Otro colega ha opinado, a condición de que no se revele su identidad: Hay que reconocer que era una notición. Si se hubiera comprobado, no habría habido noticia.

But now reporters came to the story with the lead fixed in their minds; they saw their job as proving what they already knew. They didn't want information so much as evidence of villainy. In this mode, they were openly skeptical of your point of view, since they assumed you were just being evasive. They proceeded from a presumption of universal guilt, in an atmosphere of muted hostility and suspicion.

Like a bearded nut in robes on the sidewalk proclaiming the end of the world is near, the media is just doing what makes it feel good, not reporting hard facts. We need to start seeing the media as a bearded nut on the sidewalk, shouting out false fears. It's not sensible to listen to it.

We mentioned it later to some people who'd been at the Pacification briefing, someone from the Times and someone from the AP, and they both agreed that the kid from the Big Red One had said more about the Hearts-and-Minds programme than they'd heard in over an hour of statistics, but their bureaus couldn't use his story, they wanted ambassador Komer's. And they got it and you got it.

Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it

It shouldn't be the Centers for Disease Control. It should be the Centers for Disease Observation and Reporting. That's what they do well.

They really should just change the name," she said. "It shouldn't be the Centers for Disease Control. It should be the Centers for Disease Observation and Reporting. That's what they do well.

them. Both kinds of reporters say they are frustrated in their attempts to talk to living people who don't respond. Both state they feel a pulling sensation away from the place where they died and experience relaxation and curiosity rather than fear. All these people report a euphoric

Although it sees the world through much the same ideological lens as do corporate and government elites, the press must occasionally report some of the unpleasantness of life, if only to maintain its credibility with a public that is not always willing to buy the far-right line. On those occasions, rightists complain bitterly about a left bias.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.