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• Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

  Irving Kristol

  Phones, Media, Lucky

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• The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

  Barbara Walters

  Media, News, Want

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• The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Media, People

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• The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.

  Josephine Herbst

  Movie, Men, Media

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• There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

  Brit Hume

  Careers, Two, Long

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• My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

  Deborah Norville

  Jobs, Anchors, Television

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• Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn't be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii!

  Jay Leno

  Home, Holiday, Cutting

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• Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Writing, Situation, Articles

  Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion

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• We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Political

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• I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

  Barry Bonds

  Spring, Training, Lasts

  "Bonds goes back, forth / Stories differ about retiring" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2006.

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• The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Artist, World

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Newspapers, Newspaper Reporters, Wells

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• I never knew what a reporter looked like.

  Dwayne Andreas

  "Dwayne’s World" by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

  Marv Levy

  Talking, Advice, Littles

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• For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Memories, Careers

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• I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Kids, Love Is, People

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• Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, People, Vietnam

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• I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Phrases, Actors

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• When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Law, Hype, Climate

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

  Tom Brokaw

  Real, Thinking, Names

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

  John Travolta

  Jobs, Team, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Glenn] Thrush's emails to [Hillary] Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were splashed across screens in newspapers nationwide. Thrush was criticized for sharing a half dozen paragraphs of a draft of a story for Podesta to rebut. Some reporters do just that. Other newsrooms have policies discouraging or forbidding it. Thrush says he does the same for Republicans.

  Donna Brazile

  Email, Doe, Campaigns

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

  Ben Bradlee

  May, Journalism, Robbing

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

  Joey Skaggs

  Aggravation, Stories, Release

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• A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Texas, Pieces

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