Robert Reich Quotes

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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.

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read about in a book or watch in a movie or a television show - and in this case, in the Republican primary, Trump was not the villain.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

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

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

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.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Journalists do not write about human feelings.

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.

It's the media who love statistics.

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

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

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

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

Yeah, that'll excite the media, what role will Bill [Clinton] have, versus the [Donald] Trump story. But in all of this, the key to remember is that we're not talking about media.