Dave Barry Quotes

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

Congressional investigations are for the benefit of photographers.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about.

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

I got into journalism, actually, when I started my graduate program at Portland State and ended up becoming the multimedia editor of the student paper and covered very uninteresting stories on campus: this culture event, dance night.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.

I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.

I know better than to ever attempt to get a reporter removed from covering any topic. That would never be an option.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.