Quotes About Journalism

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a photo of one of the 10 politicians whose picture must be attached to every news story.

Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

The reporting has always been what drives me.

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

The days of print media are numbered. Some papers will be around for a few years, but everyone knows news is going online. Then you have to ask, who pays for it? How do you deliver it? Is there any money for proper investigative reporting?

All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington.

I'm reporting on a world at war.

Obviously, if I cared about what people said about my reporting, I wouldn't be a good journalist.

So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal of humor, and when there is, it's pretty sophomoric.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

I can remember, at the start of my career, there were reports of about 100 words here and there, and they would have got your name wrong or the name of the scorer wrong. It just wasn't taken seriously at all.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's only for 60 seconds, max.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC.

I'm so impressed with the quality of the 'Evening News.'

If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.