Quotes About Reporting

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

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We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.