Coverage Quote by Walter Cronkite

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

An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.

— Ory Okolloh

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

— Nina Easton

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

— Peter Bergen

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

— Calvin Trillin

A large part of running for president is intense scrutiny on personal history and political records. But once you're in office, that scrutiny subsides.

— Jamelle Bouie

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from…

— Edward Felten

At any debate, you want viewers to have learned something they didn't know before - whether it's about the candidates' temperament, policies, or preparedness…

— Hallie Jackson

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the…

— Dick Morris

When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of…

— Barack Obama

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data…

— Michelle Obama

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

— Dwight D. Eisenhower