Quotes About Reporting

This body of reporting provides an unparalleled glimpse into the shadowy world of extrajudicial assassination that promises to be Barack Obama's most troubling legacy.

How come every day there's exactly the right amount of news to fill the paper?

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.

Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for ensuring this is to ask all subjects of a story for their comment.

Call me radical, but I've always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public opinions: freedom of expression, and attacks on journalists.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Journalism is the first rough draft of history.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.

Accounting is the language of business.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

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

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

The press no longer exaggerated the incidence of minor accidents