#porter

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. ↗

— Russell Baker

#computer #databases #day #fitting #glass

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#clocked #daily #days #each #expected

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#education #fund #go #i #know

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#din #entered #era #every #powers

We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future. ↗

— Karen Kain

#energy #frightened #future #longer #our

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. ↗

— Sanjay Dutt

#except #first #friendly #friends #get

I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#big #captain #captain america #fun #gather

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston. ↗

— Howie Carr

#ago #because #boston #covering #crime

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement