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I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Neil Sheehan

War, Vietnam, Literature

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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Walter Cronkite

Yield, People, Democracy

"Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2009.

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I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing, Years, Two

Source: www.gq.com

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Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

Colin Flaherty

Real, Broken, Stories

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As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

Paul Provenza

Writing, Comedian, Trying

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Andrew Ferguson

Journalism, Paradox, Source

"Scotty: All the News That's Fit to Schmooze". The Weekly Standard, February 24, 2003.

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It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Walter Cronkite

Jobs, Lying, Patriotism

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Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

David Carr

Hustle, Good Writers

"David Carr, New York Times columnist, dies suddenly after collapsing in office" by Ben Doherty, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.

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You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Kenneth Rexroth

Journalistic, Ifs, Values

Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”

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... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

Jack Paar

Funny, Two, California

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As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

Lewis H. Lapham

New York, Growing Up, Children

Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

Edith Sitwell

Nurse, Mad, Mind

Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

Linda Ellerbee

Thinking, People, Gossip

Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

Fanny Fern

Ignorance, Omission, Color

Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114

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Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

Matt Sanchez

Party, Player, Boards

"AP Reports on the Wrong Massacre" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 6, 2007.

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All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

Carolyn Hart

Powerful, Makeup, Stripes

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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Ears, Mouths, Slander

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Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we
find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to
risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the
globe.

Stan Lee

Adventure, Risk, News

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I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Kevin Cramer

Ministry, Vocation, Plumber

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A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Maureen Dowd

Lasts, Source, Betray

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[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Anna Magnani

News, Actors, Oscars

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Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Flora Lewis

Truth, Trying, Substance

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He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

Katherine Paterson

Art, Children, Book

Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

Daniel Silva

Country, Fall, Practice

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Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old
woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it,
she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

David Letterman

Years, Two Year Olds, Dating

David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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