Top 1200 Newspaper Reporters Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

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

There is evidence Rand Paul has a real problem with women reporters.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing.

Sometimes in the moment when I'm doing a press conference, one of my favorite things is to watch reporters.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the environment.

We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open to new people. None of that is true in the newspaper industry today. Print in general is pretty rugged. The good thing is that you can gain a foothold on the Internet because everybody has access to it, even things like Twitter - I mean, you can get a reputation for being funny pretty quickly on Twitter, on a blog, that kind of thing.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Do I believe that their coverage is slanted and biased? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. A majority of reporters are liberal.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

I've always been a guy who didn't mind speaking to reporters.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

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

I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

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

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

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

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.