Kevin Frazier Quotes

I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

I invested in the 'Globe' because it is one of the best and most important news organizations in the world. We saw this vividly in the days and weeks after the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, and we also see it in many other ways every day.

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

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

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.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I started as a print reporter.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

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.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.

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