Quotes of Reporting - somelinesforyou

“ We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. ”

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

“ There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town. ”

- Brooks Atkinson

“ Gonzo journalism is a style of "reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism — and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor… ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ COHN'S LAW — The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all of your time reporting on the nothing you are doing. ”

- Cohn

“ If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to "a semi-official statement"; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as "a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable… ”

- Evelyn Waugh
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