Investigative Quotes
49 quotes by 44 authors
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In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews,…
— Robert Mueller
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Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if,…
— J. Allen Hynek
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In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other…
— Alex Jones
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A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic…
— Nelson Mandela
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Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
— Julian Assange
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
— Ben Bradlee
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Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5…
— John Frusciante
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The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial…
— Lynda Resnick
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Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put…
— Stanley Crouch
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What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
— Robert Scheer
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
— Ted Koppel
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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
— David Remnick
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I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security…
— James Risen
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No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.
— Monica Crowley
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It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have…
— Julian Sanchez
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Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than…
— Gwen Ifill
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There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
— Robert Crumb
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My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't…
— Tim Cahill
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The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked…
— Preet Bharara
Who Wrote These Investigative Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 49 Investigative Quotes, led by these top contributors: