Reporters Quotes - Page 7

• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Responsibility, Thinking, Novelists

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Responsibility, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Trust, Notebook, Running

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  Daniel Goldston

  Science, Media, Numbers

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• If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Believe, Writing, Editors

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Political, Process

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.229, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

  Johnny Carson

  Jealous, Nbc, Names

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• No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Walking Sticks, Lynching, Revolution

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• Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

  Fred W. Friendly

  News, Today, Firsts

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• As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

  Lionel Barber

  Book, Journalism, Cubs

  Lionel Barber's Hugh Cudlipp lecture at London College of Communication, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

  Ernie Harwell

  Cheer, Team, Thinking

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• I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on the news. This reporter is standing outside a water treatment plant, going, 'If they poured the poison here it could wipe out thousands because the guard is off duty from noon until 1 every day!'

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Water, Noon

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• Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

  Michael Kinsley

  Lying, Complicated, Bigs

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• It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.

  Rick Rowley

  War, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

  Anderson Cooper

  Work, Community, Suffering

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• An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Chicago

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• The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

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• By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Editors

  Don Feder (1996). “Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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• Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Way

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• I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

  Hank Stuever

  Television, Tvs, Reviews

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Donald Trump showed his birth certificate to reporters. Who cares about his birth certificate? I want to know if that thing on his head has had its vaccinations.

  Craig Ferguson

  Who Cares, Want, Birth

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• The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Thinking, Cities

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• Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Air, Done, May

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