Quotes of: Newspaper-reporter Keyword

[first lines] Title Card: 1930. Prohibition has transformed Chicago into a City at War. Rival gangs compete for control of the city's billion dollar empire of illegal alcohol, enforcing their will with the hand grenade and tommy gun. It is the time o...

The Untouchables

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

Sally Quinn

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Al Gore

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Charles Revson

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

Bill Keller

Reporter 1: What's that? Reporter 2: Another Venus. Reporter 1: Twenty-five thousand bucks. That's a lot of money to pay for a dame without a head.

Citizen Kane

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

Andrew Marr

Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns given to economic subjects, or in the pages devoted to reports of police and law cases. And when you r...

The Conquest of Bread

Hildy Johnson: [speaking to Walter on the phone] Did you hear that? That's the story I just wrote. Yes, yes, I know we had a bargain. I just said I'd write it, I didn't say I wouldn't tear it up! It's all in little pieces now, Walter, and I hope to d...

His Girl Friday

The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

Eleanor Mondale

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Garrison Keillor

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

Jimmy Breslin

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a reporter. He was inclined to worry that too many reporters on the metropolitan staff were incompetent, and thought even...

All the President's Men

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Bill Gates

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Will Rogers

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Peter Arnett

Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.

Ezra Klein

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Bryson