Accounts Quote by Dan Rather

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all…

— Molly Ivins

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind…

— Gerald Seymour

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”

— Ian Hargreaves

But as a reporter, that's how you know you're doing a good job - when no one's talking about you. And something has gone…

— Maria Taylor

“Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same…

— Walter Kirn

For some people, I got away with something. And you know what? That's a fair thing to say, for them. I'm not saying I…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

— Peaches Geldof

“But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame…

— Lisa Unger

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

— Anthony Shadid

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who…

— Carolyn Hart

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on…

— Peter Costello