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Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
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.
Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.
I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
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.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.
Being an independent reporter with legal knowledge fits me better than being an attorney who is representing one side or one goal.
I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who wants to start out.
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?
I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.
I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's job.'
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.
I was a reporter for Gannett and the 'N.Y. Daily News' covering Gov. Mario Cuomo's dance with presidential races in both 1988 and 1991.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story as fast as we can.
As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.
But as a reporter, that's how you know you're doing a good job - when no one's talking about you. And something has gone wrong if they are.
I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other.
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
I was the first reporter in the country to get a U.S. Senator on the air during the 9/11 attacks - I was broadcasting from the Hart Building.
As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch.
When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
I will say this, being an anchor is easier than being a reporter, because one of the things I'm able to do is essentially work a bit of a split shift.
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.
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
I remember a Humphrey Bogart movie where he was a reporter, so I wanted to be a reporter, and then he was a parachutist, and I wanted to be a parachutist.
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
Maybe Drudge is more entertainer than reporter. I imagine he enjoys baiting the mainstream media, then watching it look foolish when his story is debunked.
As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.