Report Quotes

“It's about getting the facts right, and it's about context.”

“It is part of a reporter's job to be a nuisance.”

“The 'famine' is mostly bunk.”

“The allegations of intentionality by Israel were based on the deaths of and injuries to civilians in situations where our fact-finding mission had no evidence on which to draw any other reasonable conclusion.”

“You can't cover the news from a desk in New York.”

“The story is still developing, and we will bring you new information as it becomes available.”

“The sources are the lifeblood of what we do.”

“To be a good reporter, you have to be a good listener.”

“Conditions are bad, but there is no famine.”

“In a difficult story, you get the best information from sources at the lowest echelons of an organization, not from the top.”

“The flight is proceeding normally. I feel fine.”

“It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional.”

“The report is my testimony.”

“I don't do heroes and I don't do victims. That reduces people to stock characters.”

“I want to be the person who is the first to get the story and the first to tell it.”

“The condition is 'serious but not catastrophic'.”

“I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to get the story.”

“Good reporting is hanging out.”

“We did not want to muckrake, we wanted to see.”

“The story is the search for the best obtainable version of the truth.”