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• The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

  Michael Schudson

  Stories, Journalism, Bases

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• I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

  Helen Thomas

  Privilege, Born, Should

  "'What Else Should a Reporter BE' But a Liberal?" by Warner Todd Huston, www.newsbusters.org. January 21, 200.

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• A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.

  Bob Schieffer

  Sports, Football, Jobs

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• During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

  Amy Goodman

  Victory, President, News

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

  Katia Winter

  Interesting, Gossip, Admire

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.

  Katia Winter

  Dream, Fun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I never went into it [the business] thinking 'I'm a female sports reporter'. I just went into it thinking 'I'm a sports reporter'. No chip on the shoulder, no feeling like a victim when you walk in, no feeling entitled when you walk in. You've just got to do your job and work extremely hard. I think it's very basic. There's no magic to it. I think honestly it comes down to how badly do you want it. How hard are you willing to work?

  Michele Tafoya

  Sports, Jobs, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview with Sunday Night Football's Michele Tafoya". SBNATION interview, www.dailynorseman.com. July 16, 2014.

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• The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.

  Hodding Carter III

  Wall, Believe, Average

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• As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?

  Russell Sherman

  Heart, Reality, Artist

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• If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Talking, Two, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.1071, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

  Ben Bradlee

  Government, Editors, People

  "Deep Throat Revealed: Ben Bradlee". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2005.

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• The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?

  Stephen Colbert

  Real, Mean, Names

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• We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some movies where I'm like why do I even need to keep watching? And so, if you can make a movie in which you're completely surprising the audience left and right, and left and right, then you've won. If a jaded film critic or reporter or an audience is like, "I didn't see that one coming," that to me is like a victory.

  Richard Shepard

  Mean, Film Critics, Victory

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There are some great reporters around. They're talented, they're honest as the day is long. They're great. But there are some terrible, dishonest people, and they do a tremendous disservice to our country and to our people.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Long, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, White, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Cameras, Watches

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think if the content is good and the content is interesting, the at home viewer will watch it for as long as the story is interesting thus the responsibility for making the story interesting falls on the shoulders of the reporter or the producer. Then I'm disappointed that producers have felt that television can only be told in 59 second story bursts because we've become, it's become journalism based on MTV, video electronic editing and cutting.

  Robin Leach

  Fall, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of people wanna hear or have to hear.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, People, Millions

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

  Graham Greene

  Saws, Titles, Action

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

  Barry Manilow

  Looks, Photographer, Fame

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• The government is just you know, blowing the doors off the media. And not everywhere, and I think, this is where you know, a lot of those blog reporters and all of those things are bringing a lot of urgency and a lot of momentum to stories that wouldn't normally carry any momentum.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Doors, Media

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Reporters are always supposed to be demanding more access and more transparency. So the day that there isn't some friction between the White House press corps and the White House is the day that somebody in the press corps is not doing their job.

  Josh Earnest

  Jobs, White, House

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, OK? They're the only who ask.

  Donald Trump

  Care, Return, Taxes

  "Donald Trump's News Conference: Full Transcript and Video", www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2017.

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• All I can ask for is honest reporters.

  Donald Trump

  Honest, Asks, I Can

  "Transcript of President-elect Trump's news conference" by Natalia Wojcik, Mack Hogan, Mike Juang, www.cnbc.com. January 11, 2017.

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• The e-mails show the reporters collaborate and conspire directly with the [Hillary] Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Campaigns, Mail

  Source: time.com

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