Reporters Quotes - Page 24

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Crazy, Writing, Discredit You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

  Scott Pelley

  Ideas, Firsts, Video

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• 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.

  Daryn Kagan

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  "Oscars and the 'Oh, wow' factor" by Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2003.

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• My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

  Jerry Springer

  Smart, Thinking, Vote

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• These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

  Edward Bennett Williams

  New York, Lying, Newspapers

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• When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Nashville, Rights, Race

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• As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

  Rodney Erickson

  College, Penn State, Used

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• I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

  Jill Abramson

  Thinking, Tough Person, Standards

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• Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

  Jill Abramson

  Children, Stories, Sensitive

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• I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

  Robert Scheer

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• I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

  Nick McDonell

  Stills

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• I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

  Michael Hastings

  Want, Generations, Greatest Generation

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• There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Trying, President, Administration

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• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

  Amy Waldman

  Character, Trying, Novelists

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• I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

  Zero, World, Starting

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• He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.

  Robert Scheer

  Cities, Likes, Rooms

  Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.77, Akashic Books

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• The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Writing, Media

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• I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Young, Energetic, Humans

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• A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

  Susan Cheever

  Motherhood, Men, Careers

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• I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Life Changing, Acting, Female

  "TV news in the 50s was more thrilling than The Hour" by Lynne Reid Banks, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2011.

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• In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Editors, People, Pet

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.

  David Folkenflik

  Cnn, News, Helping

  "Donna Brazile's Resignation Illustrates Cable TV's Pundit Problem". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. November 2, 2016.

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• Donald Trump has come on a lot and I think one of the hardest parts of my job is digging down beyond their talking points to get them to say something that people actually want to hear rather than what they've come to the interview with, and that is difficult. That's a reporter's challenge.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Jobs, Thinking, Talking

  Source: wwd.com

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• I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream.

  Grace Phipps

  Dream, Talking, Play

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• [On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Husband, Trying, Federal Reserve

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