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Quotes About Reporters

My dad was a high school and college coach, and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn't interested in what they had to say.
~ Samantha Ponder
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
~ James Kirkwood
After directing broadcast media coverage for seven House committees, I know the signs of a sideshow - and delivering demand letters to reporters before they go to the person being asked to produce documents is one of the chief signs.
~ Michael Caputo
What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat
~ Judy Blundell
When reporters asked Nixon about Martin Luther King, Jr., being in jail, Nixon said, "No comment.
~ Bonnie Bader
The reason I wrote 'Hit List' is the 50 mysterious deaths of witnesses to the JFK assassination. We're talking about CIA agents, FBI agents, reporters, people who had foreknowledge, or people who spoke too much afterward.
~ Richard Belzer
I'm trying to get on the yoga/pilates train, but I can't seem to sit still. I imagine a lot of reporters would say the same.
~ Kayla Tausche
I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.
~ Jim Acosta
I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.
~ Louise Linton
As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.
~ Jonathan Karl
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Take it all in. Remember everything. " I assumed reporters and biographers would want lots of specific information when they wrote about the Great Expedition. The details would make good reading. The hot sun beating on our heads, the leaky boat, the lack of good supplies. The setup was perfect. Dad always said you couldn't do a job correctly without the proper tools. Well, I was going to do it with a whole boatload of improper equipment. He would be doubly amazed.
~ Brenda Z. Guiberson
Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'
~ Conan O'Brien
These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.
~ Edward Bennett Williams
Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.
~ Janine di Giovanni
My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.
~ Dwight Gooden
Wiley's behavior had lately become so odd that younger reporters who once sought his counsel were now fearful of his ravings, and they avoided him.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I recalled the old saw about why reporters always whistle when they are on the toilet; it's the only way they can remember which end to wipe.
~ Brian Haig
Reviews were scathing—most criticized its too-fast pacing, and overreliance on slapstick and sight gags, both of which had been intentional on Lucas's part. But Lucas brushed off the criticism. "It came out almost exactly or even better than I hoped it would come out," he told reporters defiantly.149 "I like my movies, and I'm always surprised if they do very well or do terribly. But Radioland Murders was inexpensive and we learned quite a bit.
~ Brian Jay Jones
local reporters going out on the press-bus each day for the carefully staged "player interviews," that Dolphin tackle Manny Fernandez described as "like going to the dentist every day to have the same tooth filled
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
~ Jimmy Breslin
Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
~ Howie Carr
Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.
~ Amy Jo Martin
Personally, I saw no organized malevolence toward reporters in the IDF; I'd dealt with enough Israeli soldiers to know that many of them operated by the book. But I also knew very well that others among them were fanatics, some from ultra-nationalist settlements, and considered foreign journalists enemies of the Jewish State.
~ Neil Macdonald