“The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.” IfsWritingStatesStoriesUnitedUnited StatesMediaFrontsNew YorkPagesBoringNewspapersEnormousPostsReportersExclusiveArrestedManhattanNew York TimesNightclubs Author:Dave Barry
“For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.” PeopleMindHeartLittlesHas BeensMadeStoriesRunningCryEmotionalTrustSafeNewsPagesAdultsLike MeDriversReportersTrust MeNotebookNeatSafe Places Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?” HumansTeamPagesAffairBarackMatesRecallsReportersCricketIncidentsMatthewArchivesSpatsTeam MateEscapade Author:Michael Atherton
“When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.” WarUseEffectsFrontsBedPaperMarriedPagesDecidedSevenStatementsSatReportersPapersHoneymoonSeven Days Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.” FactsStarsPagesVery GoodMagazinesPostsEditorsReportersMaxEditorialsMeg Author:Nat Hentoff
“When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.” NeedsMistakeFrontsNewsPagesReporters Author:Willie Stargell