#porter

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#ask #back #buried #charges #comes

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. ↗

— David Remnick

#four #history #i #interested #language

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#dad #me #never #pressure #put

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#give #i #make #predictions #reporter

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#evidence #fact #flaw #man #newspaper

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#her #humored #i #in the beginning #me

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#family #fans #olympic #part #supporters

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#baghdad #been #bombings #capital #car