Reporters Quotes · Page 2

Reporters aren't actually people!

— Troy Duffy

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

— Leon Russell

Lexicographers are language reporters.

— Erin McKean

“What, Rudolph wasn’t available?”

— Sierra Donovan

“Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching”

— Rebecca Aguilar

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

— P. J. O'Rourke

We were the underground reporters.

— DJ Yella

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

— Mark Twain

I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.

— Cenk Uygur

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

— Jay Leno

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

— Maureen Dowd

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Mandy Moore

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

— Bob Greene

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream.

— Grace Phipps

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't…

— Marv Levy

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 art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in…

— Derek Tangye

I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of…

— Donald Trump

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

— Donald Trump

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was…

— George Packer

President Bush got a little upset with a reporter for calling him 'sir' instead of 'Mr. President.' Man, how upset is he…

— Jay Leno

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed…

— Jonathan Alter

There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White…

— Evan Thomas

Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds…

— Michael Wilbon

Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60…

— Linda Ellerbee

Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't…

— Art Garfunkel

If you're curious how Lance Armstrong got away with cheating for 15 years or why Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend went unnoticed for…

— Sean Evans

Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I…

— Jack Palance

For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,…

— Anna Quindlen

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without…

— Eric Alterman

There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that…

— Bernard Goldberg

My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some…

— Charlie Brooker

Having said that, I've got to tell you, looking ahead, it's like these storms coming in over the pacific that's we feel…

— Donald Trump

In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and…

— H. L. Mencken

Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to…

— Dave Abrams

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability…

— Linda Ellerbee

I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a…

— Ed McCabe

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big…

— Arianna Huffington