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“There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.”

“...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.”

Knows Politics President Reporters President Bush Barrels Quoting Scraping Sids

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.”

Matter Politics Issues Environment Environmental Fairness Reporters Environmental Issues

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.”

Trying Political Asks Politics Left Easy Reader Amount Paid Folks Circles Ask Me Interviews Significance Drivers Transition Reporters Nascar

Author:Mary Katharine Ham

“Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.”

Men Games Fun Sports Grace Media Baseball Disappointment Crowds Curious Redemption Meant To Be Reporters Relaxed Solemn Fur Sour Exhilarating Cameraman Spaciousness

Author:John Updike

“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.”

People Should Talking Presses Release Reporters Rules Of Life Press Release

Author:James Fallows

“Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.”

People Thinking Years Different Views Careers Fronts Pages Years Ago Forgiving Sticks Point Of View Eras Forty Jail Editors Reporters Tails Different Points Of View

Author:Mike Royko

“It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.”

Ideas Interest Audience Television Tvs Program Producers Reporters Inclination

Author:Neil Postman

“Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.”

Looks Stories Happened Reader News Insight Reporters Halfway Columns Savvy Pundits Nuggets

Author:William Safire

“Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.”

May Sides Dark Pleasure Reporters Dark Side Hazards Occupational Hazards

Book:Uncivil liberties

Source: Uncivil liberties

“A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.”

Remains Journalism Reporters Skeptic

Author:Jack Smith

“The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.”

Humans Political Events Drama Ritual Conventions Reporters Covering

Author:William Greider

“My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.”

Writing Lines Newspapers Grandfather Reporters Uncles My Grandfather Good Writers Newspaper Reporters

Author:Gene Hackman

“I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Persons Facts Problem Lasts President Challenges Issues Focus Judging Ought News Standards Administration Reporters Governing Uninformed

Author:David Gergen

“There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.”

Stars Cases Paper Hollywood Scared Reporters Papers Movie Star

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.”

Politics Painting Listening Politician Reporters Mona Lisa

Author:Robert Orben

“What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.”

Politics Hair Democratic Conventions Reporters

Author:Dave Mustaine

“Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.”

May Matter Done Seems Asks Air Pages Print Buried Reporters Outlandish Verification Truth Comes Out

Author:Dixie Lee Ray

“It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.”

Way Journalism Journalist Reporters Distrust Objectivity Auras

Author:Georgie Anne Geyer

“I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.”

Three Journalist Editors Reporters Never Trust

Book:The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

Source: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

“Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.”

Men World Wells Gay I Realized Stuck Reporters Gay Men

Author:Larry Kramer

“My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.”

People Years Firsts Two Five Saws Four Baseball Reporters Playoffs

Author:Dwight Gooden

“I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.”

Scholar Reporters

Author:Peter Jennings

“I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.”

Years Littles Relationship Rocks Tvs Mets News Bills Clinton Twelve Reporters Arkansas Little Rock

Author:Gennifer Flowers

“As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.”

Facts Literature Situation Knowing Approach Agendas Bad Things Reporters

Author:Maria Bartiromo

“It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.”

Men Games Winning Race Tvs Scene Baseball Relation Asking Cameras Vietnam Reporters Race Relations Baseball Games

Book:Vida: His Own Story

Source: Vida: His Own Story

“Reporters aren't actually people!”

People Reporters

Author:Troy Duffy

“I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.”

Ifs Want Hurt Revolutionary Friendly Reporters Talk To Me

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.”

Littles Wanted Fantasy Periods Dresses Cards Hats Clothings Reporters Cowboy Vintage Explorers Dressed Up Vintage Clothing

Author:Illeana Douglas

“We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.”

Voice Citizens Eras Reporters Small Voice

Author:Matt Drudge

“I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Facts Care Efficient Reporters I Care

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.”

Writing Wells Persons Long Courses Memories Saws Looking Back Reporters Observant

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.”

Should War Government Reporters Retired Coverage Parades Posing

Author:Amy Goodman

“My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.”

Writing Jobs Past Relevant Reporters Employers My Past

Author:Jeff Gannon

“I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.”

Knows Used Crime Willing Unique Beats Prison Phones Lawyer Backgrounds Used To Be Suspense Cop Reporters Phone Calls Specialty

Author:Lisa Gardner

“I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.”

Way Giving Stories Used Strange Reporters Right Way Old Days

Author:Joe Arpaio

“I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.”

Kind Wanted Industry Newspapers Advertising Reporters Captains Newspaper Reporters Captains Of Industry

Author:Ken Follett

“A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.”

War Tvs Kings Dozen Reporters Crew King Kong

Author:Tom Robinson

“What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.”

Want Giving Writing Matter Care Too Much Crazy No Matter What Interviews Reporters Discredit Caring Too Much Discredit You

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Stills Bigs Fun Stars Red Standing Factors This Day Wow Reporters Carpet Red Carpet Standing There Showbiz

Author:Daryn Kagan

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