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“I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils down, take your grunt-o-meters down, the fashion police, put everything away and just watch the match, you know, from just the fans' perspective. I seriously think that the quality of the match today was great.”

Thinking Knows Today Jobs Quality Watches Fans Fashion Perspective Police Notes Reporters Pencils Meter Pads Grunt

Author:Maria Sharapova

“Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.”

People Sometimes Suffering Hurt Live By Reporters

Author:Philippos Syrigos

“If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.”

Ifs Jobs Reporters Royal Pianist Brothels

Author:Max Hastings

“The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm”

Lines Alive Tomorrow Reporters Testimony

Book:The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

Source: The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

“Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.”

Believe May Stories Reporters

Book:The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

Source: The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

“Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“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.”

Life Is Half Hell Fire Media Paper Red Driven Locals Curious Reporters Papers

Author:Michael Lewis

“No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.”

Dark Plans News Strategy Corners Reporters

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.”

Shows Host Reporters Talk Shows

Author:Dan Abrams

“There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.”

People Kind Running Three Disaster Cop Reporters Fireman

Author:Rod Dreher

“If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.”

Ifs May Has Beens Stores Journalism Reporters Robbing Good Journalism Investigative Journalism

Author:Ben Bradlee

“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.”

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Author:Joey Skaggs

“At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.”

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Book:All the President's Men

Source: All the President's Men

“The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.”

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Author:Eleanor Mondale

“Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.”

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Author:Chester A. Arthur

“I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.”

Cat Swings Hitting Reporters Cant

Author:Russel Honore

“A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.”

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Author:Joshua Lederberg

“When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.”

Reporters Typewriters

Author:Theodore White

“One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.”

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Author:Zach Braff

“One time a reporter asked me what my worst quality was. I looked him in the eyes then punched him in the face. I kind of felt bad about it later, but he didn't need to be rude.”

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Author:Zach Braff

“I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.”

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Author:Nate Silver

“One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters”

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Author:Walter Isaacson

“I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.”

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Author:Randy Shilts

“Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.”

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Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman”

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Author:Bill Kaulitz

“I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.”

Firsts Lasts Doubt Members Congress Reporters

Author:Michael Grimm

“I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.”

Knows Kind I Can Remember Drink Asking Reporters Soft Drinks

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.”

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Author:Jim Lehrer

“From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.”

People Running Interest Forget Advantage Reporters Inarticulate

Author:Joan Didion

“For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.”

“I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.”

“I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.”

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Author:David Remnick

“I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine.”

People Team Fine Decided Cheer Reporters

Author:Ernie Harwell

“The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.”

“It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.”

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Author:Jonathan Dimbleby

“I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old.”

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Author:James Risen

“The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?”

Source: The Best and the Brightest

“If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.”

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Author:David Halberstam

“Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.”

Men Should Prove Innocent Recognition Cheating Reporters

Book:My own story, Donahue

Source: My own story, Donahue

“Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.”

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Book:My own story, Donahue

Source: My own story, Donahue

“It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'”

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Author:Saul Perlmutter

“I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.”

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Author:Sarah

“There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.”

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Book:Detroit: An American Autopsy

Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy

“In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand outside and chant anti-Romney slogans. Well, who says President Obama isn't creating any new jobs?”

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Author:Jay Leno

“As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.”

“Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.”

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Author:Low Thia Khiang

“Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.”

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Author:Jerry Siegel

“A journalist is a reporter out of a job.”

Jobs Journalist Reporters

Author:Mark Twain

“Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.”

Thinking Reports Reporters Columnists

Author:Allan Sloan

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