Just Fontaine Quotes

[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.

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.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

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

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.

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.

People still assume the White House Correspondents' Association works for the White House, when in reality, it's a group of journalists who cover the White House. It's a branding thing, but because it has the 'White House' before it, people think they're just King Joffrey's goons.

People don't realize there's a whole separate entrance to the White House for journalists.

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 a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.

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

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.

There are many great outlets that we love and respect, but 'The North Star' really is going to be a hard news outlet with reporters and journalists, White House correspondents. I think we'll be hard news with some cultural commentary.

One of the principles of White House coverage is that a wide variety of news outlets should be represented at briefings and press conferences.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.