Action Quote by Michael Hastings

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you…

— Helen Thomas

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness…

— Edward Jay Epstein

Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

— Richard S. Salant

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind…

— Dan Rather

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

— Mark McKinnon

In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But…

— Robert Kane Pappas

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't…

— Serge Schmemann

Journalists undoubtedly have a duty to push, cajole, and aggressively maneuver around campaign handlers in order for the public to see a candidate unscripted.

— Richard Grenell

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

— Marisa Tomei

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more…

— Thomas Sowell

The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful that the…

— Edward Greenspon

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like…

— Rush Limbaugh