Quotes About Reporting

I have never received a single 'off-the-books cash payment' as falsely 'reported' by 'The New York Times,' nor have I never done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia.

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or an unanswered question you spot in someone else's article.

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

Good morning, this is Dan Rather, with the news. Today, [person] died in an insanely nonhumorous manner

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.