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• Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Writing, Light, Years

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• If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

  Mike Wallace

  Integrity, Important, Credibility

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• As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Phones, Secret

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• I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Thinking, Use

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  Dan Rather

  Mistake, Editors, Perfect

  "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Night, Needs, Firsts

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• Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, Baghdad, Should

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• No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Airplane, Flying, Twins

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• The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Politician

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• Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Littles, Opinion

  "Palin accepts nomination, slams Obama in speech". www.cnn.com. September 04, 2008.

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• In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

  Laurence Silberman

  War, Iraq, President

  "The Dangerous Lie That 'Bush Lied'" by Laurence Silberman, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Pain, Book, Islamic

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• Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

  Julian Bond

  Racism, Black, Racist

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• I quote the late Ed Murow. ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.

  Dan Rather

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

  Nina Bawden

  Jobs, War, Oxford

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

  Lance Ito

  Cameras, Prejudice, Analysis

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• REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Way, Tempest

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

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• Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

  Peter Arnett

  Eye, Opportunity, Media

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• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

  Amy Goodman

  Wall, Party, Numbers

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

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• I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

  Matt Drudge

  Reason, Participation, Reports

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

  Frank Rich

  Criminals, Hollywood, Propaganda

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• There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

  Evan Thomas

  Editors, White, Long

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• There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Father, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.164, Penguin

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• As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

  Martin Cooper

  New York, Moving, Phones

  "The day the mobile phone went public 38 years ago, leaving New Yorkers bemused and bewildered" by Graham Smith, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

  Low Thia Khiang

  People, World, Void

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