Jess Walter Quotes

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

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.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.