reporters

The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a rocket. War is a human activity far too large to be contained in the experience of a single reporter in a single place and time in any meaningful way. When it comes, it happens to everyone. Everything is in its path. Yet this is the allure of war reporting, the chance of acquiring some personal mother lode of truth to beam back to the living rooms of a waiting nation. The fear that comes from reporting on a war is as much a fear of missing this mother load as it is of being injured or killed in battle, and it sets reporters apart from the people who have to fight wars. Soldiers have their own agonies to think about as a battle approaches. Missing the war is not generally one of them.

A moment from another world! Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a lead story, sourced from the President of the United States, from a telephone just off the White House dance floor to the strains of Lester Lanin's dance band.

Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I__e been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what__ going on.''Nonsense. If there__ one place in the world where nobody knows what__ going on, it__ a newspaper office.

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed _ that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed.

Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching

If you're not pitching, stop bitching

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job _ popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else _ they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.

When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, picked me up, brushed me off again, then kicked me in the seat of my pants as she handed me a piece of cake and showed me the door.Being a reporter isn't as easy as it looks.

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

What, Rudolph wasn__ available?

I don__ know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician__ job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we__e dumb and it__ to their advantage to keep us that way.