My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.