#reporter

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#consider #directly #duty #few #get

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#article #his #like #person #reporter

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#badly #becomes #how #make #mistake

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#government #interested #issues #just #more

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military. ↗

— Jim Walton

#during #embedded #established #guidelines #military

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#came #first #five #four #got

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#crazy #drive #me #questions #reporters

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#confidential #defend #even #go #gone

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #reporters #retreated #some #totally

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