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• I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Writing, People, World

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• Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

  Wallace Stegner

  Judging, Prophet, Preacher

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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• The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Military, Reality, Firsts

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• The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

  Lou Dobbs

  Media, Ideas, Political

  Studio Briefing, movieweb.com. October 17, 2005.

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• The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

  Ed Koch

  Friendly, Supportive, Media Training

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• My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

  Thomas Pynchon

  Belief, Recluse, Journalist

  Phone call to CNN, June 5, 1997.

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• The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

  Chris Hedges

  Passion, Media Control, Telling The Truth

  Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian (2013). “Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians”, p.18, Nation Books

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• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, College, Years

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• To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Political, Empires, Novelists

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• The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

  Alastair Campbell

  Eye, Obstacles, Daredevil

  "Key quotes: Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest and Press Association, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

  Daniel Okrent

  Dog, Car, Chasing

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• I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

  Daniel Okrent

  Pundits, Ridicule, Knows

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

  David Simon

  Lying, Choices, Would Be

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• You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

  Charles Kuralt

  Stories, Towns, Kind

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• I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Stories, Lines

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• I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

  Charles Kuralt

  Real, Embarrassing Questions, Peaceful

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• I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ambition, Opportunity, Newspapers

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• A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.

  Jim Bishop

  Men, People, Interesting

  "Fish Out Of Water: Number 3 in series". Book by MaryJanice Davidson, p. 10, February 6, 2014.

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• In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Whales, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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• Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

  Joe Paterno

  Trying, Want, Causes

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• As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

  Rachel Maddow

  Switzerland, Want, States

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• Joan Collins told a reporter that she hasn't had plastic surgery; come on... she's had more tucks than a motel bedsheet!

  Joan Rivers

  Plastic, Motels, Surgery

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• The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Brother, Done, Rookies

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