Henry Villard Quotes

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

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

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.

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

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

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.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

Whether it's standing backstage with Jennifer Lopez in a dress that I know everyone will be talking about tomorrow... or being there when incredible news breaks, and instead where people sit in front of their TVs and look at it, I'm the person who goes there to bring you the story... It's amazing. It's unbelievable.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.