Quotes About Reporting

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

Journalists do not write about human feelings.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

Ivy Huxford kept peeking out and giving reports of who was there, and how she never saw so many seats filled in the Palace, and that she didn't think they could squeeze a rattlesnake into the back even if he paid full price, the place was so packed.

But society is going to fall apart if we stop reporting crime.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

you must file annual reports and pay an annual fee to your state.

A good newspaper is never quite good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas.

They reported briefly to those around Peter all that they had been commanded. After these things, Jesus himself commissioned them to take the message from the east to the west—the holy and imperishable preaching of eternal salvation. Amen.