Reporters Quotes - Page 3

• Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

  Jack Palance

  Jobs, War, Air

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• I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Oxymoron, Posts, Investigators

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• More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

  Holly Hunter

  Real, Cameras, Tvs

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• You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

  John Oliver

  Moral High Ground, Wells, Loses

  "John Oliver Skewers Roger Goodell, Says NFL Commish Has Lost Moral High Ground To TMZ" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

  Richard S. Salant

  Views, Stories, Point Of View

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• To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

  Rob Ray

  Fighting, Hockey, Doctors

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• Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

  Mike Wallace

  Country, People, Foxes

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• It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

  Mike Wallace

  Jobs, Joy, Way

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• As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.

  Juan Williams

  Book, Cutting, Effort

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.

  Naomi Wolf

  Jobs, Order, Faces

  "Naomi Wolf v Alan Wolfe, round two". Interview with Alan Wolfe, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2007.

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• Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

  Tom Wolfe

  Television, Researchers

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• A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

  Bob Woodward

  Government, Ties, Secret

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Phones

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• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Bob Woodward

  Wisdom, People, Stories

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• What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter.

  Jeff Gannon

  Book, Years, Two

  "Jeff Gannon weighs in on McClellan" by Michael Calderone, www.politico.com. May 29, 2008.

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• Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, Decision, Boss

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• In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

  Jessica Savitch

  Mother, Wanted

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

  Graydon Carter

  Editors, Information, Lawyer

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• One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."

  Albert Azaryan

  Gymnastics, Body, Arms

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• Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

  Kim Cattrall

  Jobs, Gossip, Spit

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• To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Judging, Facts, Behavior

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

  Howie Carr

  Boston, Years, Covering

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• I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

  Charles Kuralt

  Ideas, Calling, Want

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