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Quotes About Reporting

I had retreated to reporting because I doubted the reality of my inner voice
~ Gloria Steinem
...all histories, which are a kind of distilled newspapers...
~ Thomas Carlyle, 1841
ancient, grizzled, wild-eyed, emaciated by fever, dragged his weary frame up the veranda steps and collapsed in a steamer-chair.  Whisky and soda kept him going while he made report and turned in his accounts.
~ Jack London
In any situation, it is good to be aware of even your co-workers, and if you are uncomfortable or concerned about a colleague's behavior, report it to a supervisor.
~ Kimberly Guilfoyle
Much of the media failed to anticipate the potential Trump represented as a disruptive populist force, understand why his supporters trusted him, or offer honest reporting on the underlying trends that made his rise possible.
~ Ben Domenech
Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in our civic organizations for their own political gain.
~ Tina Smith
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
~ Al Gore
I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.
~ Sebastian Junger
Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem.
~ Charlie Sykes
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.
~ David Talbot
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
~ George Vecsey
I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.
~ Michael Azerrad
Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.
~ Michelle Alexander
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
~ Lincoln Diaz-Balart
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
~ Anne Sullivan Macy
I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.
~ Pete Rozelle
We were doing sports. It was entertainment. It wasn't like it was investigative reporting.
~ Ahmad Rashad
More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
~ Tina Brown
Here is the truth: While at the University of Florida, and now at The Ohio State University, I have always followed proper reporting protocols and procedures when I have learned of an incident involving a student-athlete, coach or member of our staff by elevating the issues to the proper channels.
~ Urban Meyer
Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
~ Barbara Demick
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
~ Phil Donahue
Be Safe: Be Suspicious Suspicion Breeds Confidence Don't suspect a friend, report him
~ Terry Gilliam
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
~ Thomas Carlyle