Quotes About Journalism

I have no doubt that Glenn Kessler is a nice guy, but the job of 'fact' 'checking' the Washington Post's ally Joe Biden will not rest with anyone so politically biased in his favor. It just won't.

When you see me up on a breaking-news story, it is not good news. I'm not about to give you the secret to my mom's sweet potato pie.

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

When scoops are just tweeted out, I think a lot of the context can be lost.

I've been to all seven continents on assignment for 'SI.'

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

I am interested in everything, which sounds like a cop out. Having been a magazine writer, I do not have a beat.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

It's more important to get the story correct than to get it first.

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

I covered the 2016 campaign and covered that in a very traditional way. I was on the road, I want to say, like 340 days out of the year.

I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I started covering Trump's charitable giving sort of by accident.

My mom likes to say I've been covering news since the day I was born - longer if you count my time in utero.

This radio business I'm in is full of guys who read the sports page and rip crap off.