#reporter

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#got #i #idea #know #remember

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#answer #asked #fireman #going #grow

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#being #having #i #imagined #just

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#band #borrow #boy #card #father

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

Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough. ↗

— Junior Seau

#adverse conditions #assignment #athletes #being #chasing

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. ↗

— David Sedaris

#i #never #pretended #reporter

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. ↗

— David Sedaris

#i #like #new #new yorker #reporter

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#before #breakfast #choice #every #getting

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit. ↗