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You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story. — Charles Kuralt

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

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went. — Christopher G. Nuttall

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

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room. — Scott Adams

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. — Julian Bond

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters. — Rush Limbaugh

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel. — Ron Chernow

[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile. — Andrea Mitchell

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. — Andy Rooney

Many reporters believed, Dvorak writes, that if you ended up in the 'needs work' category, Microsoft would take pains to try and have you fired. — Linsey McGoey

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer. — Tom Barbash

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

Is it against the law to kill a reporter? — Bobby Fischer

RUTHERFORD PIERCE TO LEAD REPORTERS ON TOUR OF FOUNDERS MEDIA HEADQUARTERS SITE IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON. — Jude Watson

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

Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write? — Annie Proulx

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

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

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways. — Scott Glenn

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

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do. — Charles Kuralt

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

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes. — David Pietrusza

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

If I could face reporters and dignitaries, I could face a boy. — Kiera Cass

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart. — Jerry Springer

The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact - of absolute undeniable fact - from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. — Arthur Conan Doyle

A reporter is no better than his source of information. — William O. Douglas

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. — Walter Cronkite

These newspaper reporters ... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times ... have got a license to lie. — Edward Bennett Williams

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers. — Frank Robinson

The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not. — Glenn Greenwald

A journalist is a reporter out of a job. — Mark Twain

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories. — Cheri Bustos

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

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly. — Bruce Jackson

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo. — Derek Tangye

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters. — Bob Woodward

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

If you're not pitching, stop bitching — Rebecca Aguilar

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue. — Tom Robinson

Harriet laughed, remembering suddenly that a novelist owes a duty to her newspaper reporters. — Dorothy L. Sayers

large numbers of reporters and — Harry Truman

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K. — Lynne Reid Banks

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

Little did they know I wasn't above backing over nasty reporters. Spoiler: the rest of this story takes place from a jail cell. — R.S. Grey

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record. — Witold Walczak

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. — Amy Goodman

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually. — Raheel Farooq

that overeager reporters would somehow — Anthony Flacco

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. — Roger Mudd

I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters. — Moses Malone

Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching — Rebecca Aguilar

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them. — J.K. Rowling

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter, — John Oliver

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

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters. — David Walton

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them. — Jim Walton

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter. — Frederick Winslow Taylor

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. — Scott Adams

The least of His reporters I
Who take some small note from His sky
and let the Universe pass by. — Alice Klauber

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue. — Eric Schlosser

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

Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle. — David

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience. — Kenneth Rexroth

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write. — Moses Malone

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. — Edna Buchanan

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me ... people i'd know for years started treating me differently. — Malcolm Wilson

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama. — Dinesh D'Souza

I'm always having to get rid of reporters. — Ada Yonath

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that. — Jonathan Maberry

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

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. — Daniel Okrent

Reporters. Honestly. What an exhausting profession, to be professionally trained to be relentless. — Mary Louise Kelly

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference. — Fred Reed

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials — Michael Schudson

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

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way. — Jet Li

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players. — Moses Malone

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. — Phil Donahue

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access. — Howard Rheingold

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. — David Coleman

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

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

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. — Lola Alvarez Bravo

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

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

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

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy. — JoAnn Ross

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

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

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. — Ben Bradlee

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth. — Chester A. Arthur

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me. — Ray Metzker

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars. — Daniel Okrent