Quotes About Good Reporters

#1. Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

Ben Bradlee

#2. The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Derek Tangye

#3. I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

Katia Winter

#4. The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

Rob Roberge

#5. There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Will McDonough

#6. Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

Sarah Palin

#7. Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

Scott Adams

#8. Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

David

#9. I don't show my body for a good cause ... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I'm a woman

Bill Kaulitz

#10. Cherchez la femme" is good advice for investigative reporters. "Follow the money" is even better advice.

Ben Bradlee

#11. All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

Pete Hamill

#12. The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

Daniel Okrent