Quotes About Reporting

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Maggie Haberman

In 1995, reporting $916 million in personal losses cleared the way for Trump to write off more than $50 million in

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day,

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Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.

For decades (really centuries), the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the ultra-Orthodox Jews, among others, have handled reports of clergy abuse as though the public good were not their problem and have insisted on silence as they refused to report the crimes to authorities.

For example, it is commonplace for the states to impose mandatory reporting requirements on professionals who have regular contact with children and suspect abuse. An obvious category would be clergy. The Catholic Church's bishops, however, invested in lobbying to obtain exemptions for clergy so that they would not have to report child abuse (knowing as it did that many of its priests were in fact abusing children).

The Vatican even today, under the popular Pope Francis, continues to prevaricate as it says that bishops should report abuse…if the law requires it. This year, the Italian bishops disclosed that they will not report clergy abuse to the authorities, because Italy does not require it. The Vatican knows full well that the law often does not require clergy to report, because its own bishops lobby to ensure it doesn't!

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Journalism is organized gossip.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.