Reporters Quotes - Page 2

• News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

  Walter Cronkite

  America, News, Left

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• If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Writing, Shows

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• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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• I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  Barry Goldwater

  Political, Politics, Today

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• 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.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Dark, News, Strategy

  "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. August 12, 2004.

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• Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Ideas, Rooms

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• When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

  Paul Simon

  Vices, Today, Whiskey

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• 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?

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Creating, New Job

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• TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.

  Stephen Colbert

  Men, White, Giving

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

  Willie Stargell

  Mistake, Needs, News

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• When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

  Junior Seau

  Sports, Running, Jobs

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• But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

  David Sedaris

  Humorists

  "David Sedaris: 'If you tell a funny story at the dinner table in front of 10 people, nine will laugh, and one will say: that's not true. I've always hated that person'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. Jun 21, 2009.

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• Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Athlete, Forget

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• I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

  David Sedaris

  Treats, New Yorkers

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• When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

  Gene Simmons

  Glasses, Air, Looks

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• I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

  Tom Stoppard

  People, Kind, Access

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• Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Should, Said

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• By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

  Dana Milbank

  Gun, Law, Doubt

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• I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.

  Anderson Cooper

  Vote, Should, Always Believe

  "Anderson Cooper Comes Out Of The Closet: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay'" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. July 02, 2012.

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• It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

  Judy Woodruff

  Long, Outcomes, Way

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• A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  "Call Her Miss Ross : The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross". Book by J. Randy Taraborrelli, 1989.

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• If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

  David Walton

  New York, Coats, Twisted

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