Quotes About Reporting

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

The press lives on disaster.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

McCarthy succeeded because he discovered and made full use of a tradition of American journalism—that most newpapermen report the news 'straight.' This means that if a prominent person says something sensational—even if untrue—the press normally will report the statement exactly as spoken ... The press simply acts as a mirror.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

As well as the fears about fifth columnists and German refugees that obsessed the nation – largely without foundation, as it turned out – there was some accurate and unnerving reporting from France. "The threat to this island grows nearer and nearer," said the Daily Express. "While the people of Britain wait anxiously for news of their soldiers over the Channel, they must prepare for the onslaught which may come upon their own soil.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

We're all photojournalists now. It's no longer enough just to write.

It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe's 'saturation reporting' was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.

Journalisms' once Holy Mantra of "who, what, where, when and, sometimes how," has been thoroughly eradicated by a ravenous creature of 24/7 photo-ops and sound bites.

Profitability will not come from managing hygiene factors alone: Future profitability depends on health as well—and firms' methods of measuring, reporting, and managing need to reflect both.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing

the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

Education was central to reporting.