Journalism Quotes by Mike Wallace

9 Journalism quotes by Mike Wallace

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Mike Wallace offers nine brief reflections on journalism, each carrying his seasoned perspective. The compact set gives you a swift glimpse into his thoughts.

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There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

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If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

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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…

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Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

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In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters…

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Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox,…

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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News.…

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I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading…

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I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on…

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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.

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“Residents grimly spoke of the crisis as “O Grab Me”—“embargo” spelled backward.”

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“The key to success in the Gold Room was information. Knowledge of a battle’s outcome obtained an hour before one’s competitors could be parlayed…

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“When the popular actor John Hodgkinson appeared in the red coat of a British officer, hecklers wouldn’t allow him to continue until he had…

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When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

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Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our…

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“Warner took to writing in hopes of making money and submitted a pious and sentimental novel to Harpers, which rebuffed it with the single…

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“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with success or…

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“Political editors were a truculent breed. Leggett’s boss, William Cullen Bryant, took a cowskin whip to William Leete Stone of the Commercial Advertiser in…

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But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think…

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“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian of genteel…

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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September…

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There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

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Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set…

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“In the symphonic world, musically inclined industrialists and financiers were having problems of a different sort with the New York Philharmonic. The old German…

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