Quotes About Journalism

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

It'd be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American - that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.

While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.

I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.