#reporters

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them. ↗

— Jim Walton

#dangerous #iraq #otherwise #put #reporters

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ↗

— Theodore White

#disappear #get #getting #i #into

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#got #license #lie #new #new york

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #book #critics #cultural #dance

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#generals #government #more #parade #posing

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. ↗

— Jay Leno

#call #correspondents #do you know #house #know

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#beltway #bus #decades #dust #eating

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

#good #groomed #journalists #many #really

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#faithfully #just #liked #need #really