Quotes About Reporting

For the reporters, the heroes of our time

E' un aspetto, questo, dello stano mestiere del cronista che non cessa di affascinarmi e, al tempo stesso, di inquietarmi: i fatti non registrati non esistono.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

I always said capital and conservative accounting are protection. So it's the preparation beforehand: capital, reporting, and liquidity," Dimon added.

Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.

You're supposed to report the news, she grumbled. Not spread vicious rumors in the form of questions. Martín had always believed in the importance of responsible journalism as a cornerstone of freedom and democracy, and so she was routinely disappointed by journalists who incited controversy by broadcasting ideas that were patently absurd—all the while avoiding legal repercussions by simply turning every ludicrous statement into a leading question.

If there is anything good to be said about my particular line of work, it's that we get to tell people the news they need to hear, and to put it in context. To get to that – for one hour every night on the 'PBS NewsHour,' and for an additional half-hour every Friday night on 'Washington Week,' we have to slog through a lot of tough stuff.

The ideal of unmediated reporting is regularly achieved only in fiction, where the writer faithfully reports on what is going on in his imagination.

William L. Shirer

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

The faster the story, the less truth is associated with it. This is especially the case on breaking stories.

What tasks I've completed since the last daily scrum. What tasks I expect to complete by the next daily scrum. What obstacles are slowing me down.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Why did you become a journalist?" "Better than working for a living.

They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." ... WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, A**HOLE!

When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.