Classy Quote logo
  • Home
  • Categories
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Who said

Reporting Quotes

Reporting quote from classy quote

It never occurred to me to wonder why I, a religion reporter, got the biggest story of the day, though, clearly, whatever else it was, it was a religion story. It wasn't until about twenty years later that a friend who had been managing editor at a Gannett paper said to me: Rob, don't your realize you were probably the ONLY religion reporter in the whole country who got that story? I still don't know why I got it. Maybe they figure I was the only one in the newsroom who had any idea what a Sikh was. Or knew how to find them, let alone Hindus, in Orange Country, California

~ Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall Journalism Religion Reporting

Sports, Politics and Technology. All the same game.

~ George Shirk

George Shirk Culture Game Games News Newspapers Politics Reporting Sports Technology

It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer's. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now sudokus) are most readily available, so the association is presumably good for circulation.

~ Alan Connor

Alan Connor Crosswords Fact Fiction Framing Newspapers Reporting Research

Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee Corrupt Corruption Evolution Human Modern Point Reached Reporting

As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee Companies Conclusion Department Displaying Each Employee Employees Every Health Human Issues Job Lose Manager Mental Outcome Reported Reporting Resources Separate System Terminated Test Time Usa Workplace

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee Crime Enforce Enforcement Enforcing Enforcing Laws Formally High Law Laws Legal System Low Not Police Police Brutality Police Corruption Police Officer Police Procedural Police Reform Police Service Police State Policeman Policemen Rate Report Reported Reporting Reports Result Results Results Quotes Statistical Analysis Statistics Statistics Quotes

There is a certain concentrated, avid-for-blood look that appears on the faces of reporters on the trail of a very big story that you'd have to visit the big cat house at the zoo to see duplicated in its primal state. From the look on Brenda's face, if a tiger was standing between her and this story right now, the cat would soon have a tall-journalist-sized hole in him.

~ John Varley

John Varley Cats Journalism Journalists Reporting Tiger

Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things, and to do business himself, if called upon, who hath both civil and military knowledge; one, moreover, who has been in camps, and has seen armies in the field and out of it; knows the use of arms, and machines, and warlike engines of every kind; can tell what the front, and what the horn is, how the ranks are to be disposed, how the horse is to be directed, and from whence to advance or to retreat; one, in short, who does not stay at home and trust to the reports of others: but, above all, let him be of a noble and liberal mind; let him neither fear nor hope for anything; otherwise he will only resemble those unjust judges who determine from partiality or prejudice, and give sentence for hire: but, whatever the man is, as such let him be described.

~ Lucian Of Samosata

Lucian Of Samosata Historian History Military Reporting

This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee Abnormal Astrobiology Astronomer Astronomical Astronomy Astrophysics Astrosociobiology Disturbed Emotional Facilities Fatigue Fits Management Osha Oxygen Reporting Respiration Saw Staff Team Upset

The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.

~ John Seddon

John Seddon Management Measurement Reporting

In the heat of the 2000 election, then Governor George W. Bush of Texas made an off-the-cuff statement that we ought to take the log out of our own eye before calling attention to the speck in the eye of our neighbor. The New York Times reported the remark as a minor gaffe -- what it termed an interesting variation on the saying about the pot and the kettle.The reporter -- actually a fine and balanced journalist -- did not recognize the biblical reference. Neither did his editors. And this, of course, was not an obscure biblical reference. Not only is it found in the red letters of the New Testament, it is taken from the Sermon on the Mount.

~ Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall Journalism Religious Illiteracy Reporting

He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that's the way a journalist ought to behave. You ought not to be going around to people volunteering your feelings. That's daily journalism.

~ Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm Journalism Journalist Reporter Reporting

Unlike other relationships that have a purpose beyond themselves and are clearly delineated as such (dentist-patient, lawyer-client, teacher-student), the writer-subject relationship seems to depend for its life on a kind of fuzziness and murkiness, if not utter covertness, of purpose. If everybody put his cards on the table, the game would be over. The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

~ Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm Journalism Journalist Reporter Reporting

Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day where their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses — the days of interviews — are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife.

~ Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm Journalism Journalist Reporter Reporting

Blogs are assailed on all sides, by the crushing economics of the business, dishonest sources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate information, greedy publishers, poor training, the demands of the audience, and so much more. These incentives are real, whether you're at The Huffington Post or some tiny blog. Taken individually, the resulting output is obvious: bad stories, incomplete stories, wrong stories, unimportant stories.

~ Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday Blogs Journalism Reporting

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

~ Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh Journalism Journalists Reporter Reporting

At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of getting up earlier than the other fellow. But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

~ Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh Journalism Journalists Reporting

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

~ Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh Journalism Journalists Reporters Reporting

Cherchez la femme is good advice for investigative reporters. Follow the money is even better advice.

~ Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee Investigative Journalism Journalism Reporting

But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

~ Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee Journalism Newspapers Reporting

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

~ Sidney Zion

Sidney Zion Journalism Reporting Sidney Zion Writing
  • Classy Quote

    ClassyQuote has been providing 500000+ famous quotes from 40000+ popular authors to our worldwide community.

  • Other Pages

    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
  • Our Products

    • Chrome Extention
    • Microsoft Edge Add-on
  • Follow Us

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
Copyright © 2025 ClassyQuote. All rights reserved.