Quotes on Newspaper Reporters

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.