Quotes about Reporters

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Joseph Alsop

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Hugh Sidey

On demand digital delivery is a fast and convenient way for deadline-driven journalists to receive content. Wireless technologies' daily impact on us all is exploding, and Bluetooth is poised to become a reporter's content choice by making high-quality media content available online.

Shoba Purushothaman

I think he did a nice job of fending off reporters at first. But Stevens opened the door, and Porter is not the type of person to back down.

Brian Pritts

I think reporters have been very aggressive in talking to federal officials about why the response has been so slow and disorganized.

Bob Shrader

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Bob Greene

It's important for people to have a first-hand look as to what's going on. That became very clear during Katrina. All these people are reporters at heart, and they need to go do what they do best.

Jon Banner

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Phil Bronstein

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Michael Lewis

March sales definitely exceeded all expectations and for the first time ever, total sales including non-reporters, exceeded 60,000 units in one month.

Brand Pretorius

I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind. I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism.

Don Hewitt

We get up, go to a meeting, get on a bus, come here, get dressed, get on a bus, go to practice, get on a bus, get dressed, talk to reporters, get on a bus, go to the hotel.

Jamar Nesbit

The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, ... and when reporters are involved, I'm just gritting my teeth.

Lucy Dalglish

We've had some reporters ask, 'Why the public hearings? Why do we do them?' This is the classic example.

Assemblyman Louis Greenwald

It wasn't a question of legitimate state secrets. They don't want embarrassing coverage. So it's very convenient for the courts to say 'state secret', therefore opaqueness, and no reporters.

Jerome Cohen

There's been an attempt to put reporters on the spot and question the motivation of reporters. It is irritating, and I for one think it's an attempt by the White House to change the focus from what is a legitimate question to what the talking point is. It's an effort to cast the media as out for red meat.

David Gregory

[• Franks told reporters the coalition now had a] very capable ground force ... represented a serious northern threat to regime forces.

Tommy Franks

It will be, if not a master class, at least a law school exam on the reporters' privilege.

Jane Kirtley

I come to the park every day and look at the lineup Tony [La Russa] puts up just like [the reporters do].

Larry Walker

Please, it is meaningless for you [reporters] to continue your wild guesses, ... As time goes by, you will realize that all these speculations have been worthless.

Frank Hsieh

Rove was close to reporters, I think he liked them and they liked him. But it doesn't matter when the press turns on you.

Jeffrey Frank

[And that's what she did. En route home, Hughes singled out to reporters] a really interesting meeting ... a common man in Turkey.

Abdullah Gul

All the microphones and reporters are standing around you like you're the president or somebody. Everybody's listening to what you have to say even if it means nothing. That's your 15 minutes of fame, glory, whatever it is. Enjoy it and just try to stay focused.

Darren Perry

But he hasn't been doing county fairs or house parties like some of the other governors. And ... he's not holding big dinners for reporters.

Julie Teer

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Kathy Nelson

Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

Jack Palance

A couple print reporters. That's about it.

Sandi Gibbons

[Chuck Rosenberg, a Fitzgerald friend who is U.S. attorney in Houston, was asked recently why Fitzgerald is going after reporters.] I said to them, 'Pat isn't going after journalists, he is after the truth,' ... He's exactly the kind of person you'd want doing something like this.

Chuck Rosenberg

Nuevo Laredo continues to be the battleground for drug cartels. And reporters continue to get caught in the crossfire. The problem is you don't know who these assailants are or why they retaliate against us.

Ramon Cantu Deandar

The copied words they discovered amounted to about 10 pages out of a total work of some 15,000 pages in print, ... The investigative reporters found them by using my footnotes.

Stephen Ambrose

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm.

Lord McCauley

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar.

Scott Henderson

That didn't occur to me. I was still in my reporter's mode. I wanted to talk to her first.

Michael Bamberger

I like this place a lot. I was real nervous about how I'd react when I first came in. This isn't anything compared to some tournaments I've wrestled in before. This feels like just another Saturday tournament. (But) there's a lot of cameras and a lot of reporters.

Dylan Carew

When a group of reporters and editors showed up at the New Orleans Convention Center with a bundle of those first papers, people grabbed for them as if they were food.

Jim Amoss

The grand jury was going, and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do.

Bob Woodward

We didn't want to overwhelm him off the field. Every camp, there's generally somebody who's the 'it' guy (among reporters seeking interviews). Everybody who comes in might have four different guys they want to talk with, but he was on all of their lists.

Tim Hevly

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.

Joey Skaggs

Had the respect of the hard-boiled editors and investigative reporters, but he managed to thrive and triumph in the more corporate environment of today.

Tom Rosenstiel

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Peter Arnett

We have reporters at every professional game, ... so we have to have people at the office around the clock to handle that data.

Steve Williams

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

James Reston

Bill did not come tonight because he knew there would be reporters here, and he said he's tired of dealing with the media.

Joe Nickel

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

Jerry Springer

I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down.

Chester A. Arthur

[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... We're going to respect that. There will be plenty of time for us later to lay out our legal arguments and examine the evidence and search for answers in this case.

Chris Adams

Now the playing field is getting leveled for all reporters. If you're a sports reporter, you're very likely to be covering legal, ethical, business, health issues - as often as your colleague covering the courts or city government or the political beat.

Tim Wulfemeyer

One of the most damning indictments of the media profession is that reporters provide the ink and others provide the blood.

Chris Cramer

All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repeating 'unconfirmed reports' as if they were news. But news without fact-checking is nothing more than glorified rumors.

David Emery

He's a leader who doesn't like reporters. I don't know that there's anything about this that reflects badly on his leadership abilities, but I think there's something about this that reflects badly on decision-making, and decision-making is part of leadership.

Eric A. Burns