Quotes About Media

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Reporters aren't actually people!

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

If you're following candidates in a campaign, you get on their plane, and what they're generally doing is they're dividing the cost of that charter flight by the number of reporters they're carrying aboard. In effect, the press is buying them that campaign flight.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them.

Bloggers are not reporters.

I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.

There is evidence Rand Paul has a real problem with women reporters.