Quotes About Reporting

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn't really serve us in the age of Trump.

Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

I don't trust CNN anchors.

In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

The truth is that 'The Jerusalem Post' is the most credible newspaper in Israel.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.