53 Quotes About Reporters

If you're not pitching, stop bitching

Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

Throughout the film the reporter kept up a ceaseless commentary in that eager, exalted tone that only American news reporters seem to achieve. It was as if he had - with enormous pleasure - just witnessed the end of the world.

To understand what kind of filter our reporter's mind is, we must ask a series of questions about it. This amounts to asking a series of questions about any material dealing with current events. The questions are these:1. What does the author want to prove? 2. Whom does he want to convince? 3. What special knowledge does he assume? 4. What special language does he use? 5. Does he really know what he is talking about? [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 244]

We should hang one of those reporter bastards every week. They're more help to the enemy than spies.""They'd make poor spies, They get everything wrong" General Grant and General Sherman

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.