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Reporter Quotes

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Jeff Rice
“Sherman Reilly Duffy of the pre-World War I CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL once told a cub reporter, 'Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.' Well, socially I fit in just fine between the whore and the bartender. Both are close friends. And I knew the world was round. Yet, as time went by I found myself confronted with the ugly suspicion that the world was, after all, flat and that there were things dark and terrible waiting just over the edge to reach out and snatch life from the unlucky, unwary wanderer.”
Jeff Rice, The Night Stalker

Jeff Rice
“Nowhere. No one is ever going to hear from you again, sir. No one."

'Uh... well... I...'

'You profane my world, sir! I cannot... I will not permit you to exist... here!"

'In that case, Doctor, why not tell me of your work? You know... condemned man's last request.'

He walked over and put a paternal arm around my shoulders, but the grip of his hand was like steel. He was a lot stronger than he looked. Not big or beefy. But strong.

'Just a dumb reporter... doing his job...'

He looked closely at me, eye to eye.

'You grovel nicely, Mr...'

'Kolchak, sir.'

'Story. You want your story, do you, Mr. Kolchak? Your precious, pitiful story? Your bloody pound of journalistic flesh?'

I smiled but it stuck halfway into a sickly grin. I was clammy. I was trembling. I could feel my wet trouser leg sticking to my flesh and was grateful I'd eaten nothing solid.”
Jeff Rice, The Night Strangler

Elizabeth Massie
“(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)
'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'
This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.”
Elizabeth Massie, Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook

“Once-barren patches of empty dust across Iraq had been dramatically transformed by countless numbers of sprawling, fast-filling tent camps. Sometimes, those patches of earth contained so many tents that they stretched out into the groove of the horizon beyond what the naked eye could see, and it was impossible to fathom just how many lives had been upended in a single plot.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“From the glistening eyes of a child that once held hope, foreign faces, aid workers, and people dressed in suits had come to symbolize a sequence of disappointments. Abdullah was tired of talking about what he needed most; it had become a fruitless exercise. He and many others had come to believe that the other camps in the area were getting all the money. They felt as though they were the only ones who had been left out and made to suffer.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“It was the streaks of pink and yellow flushing the early morning skies that could only exist in the Middle East. The region produced the most extraordinary sunrises and sunsets I had ever seen — a beautiful, deceptive umbrella hiding the bloodshed below.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“It seemed to me that they wanted freedom, but they were also scared of freedom. If they had freedom, that meant others had freedom too — freedom to drive on any road and pass any checkpoint. Those others belonged to the unknown, and could strike them again.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“It was the place that the helpless visited day in and day out, tearing their hair out and pacing the garden outside as they waited for news about their missing loved ones with the kind of agony that made me think they would shatter into tears at the slightest touch. The worst news was no news because the anguish would endure. But despite the desperation that clung to the walls, the building was a place of profound survival.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“The broken bones might heal and the open wounds might close, but victims of such merciless torture would never again have a safe place in the world to call home. Their flesh would be the prison walls against which their mind would thrash, but they would be unable to run.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“The ordinary — the ones that raised their babies in times of steep uncertainty — were of great intrigue to me. Life for this young family had indeed been hard, but it seemed not to occur to Noor that it could have been any different or easier.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“I spent a restless night on a cot surrounded by dozens of strange men inside the headquarters of the Mosul Civil Defense Unit. In the minutes between dark and daylight, we boarded trucks to make the drive to Tel Afar. The unit had received information that two mass graves containing at least twenty bodies were submerged beneath slabs of concrete and decomposing in the sewage system of the former ISIS bulwark — a sickening reminder of the lasting devastation caused by the group’s three-year occupation of northern Iraq”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

“Safety, for now, feels something of an illusion. The black flags of ISIS still wave in the shadows.”
Hollie S. McKay, Only Cry For The Living

Ryszard Kapuściński
“A reporter is not only a megaphone into which dozens of figures, names and opinions are shouted. He'd also like to say something on his own occasionally. But what am I supposed to say?”
Ryszard Kapuściński, Busz po polsku

Christina Estes
“Attention is the drug of choice in local news.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“David’s constantly asking if a story is sexy. He’s never truly defined it, but it’s guaranteed to make TMZ’s website over a city council agenda.”
Christina Estes

Christina Estes
“After several years of falling short of regular roles—large or small—JJ’s agent suggested she try TV news.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Scott mumbles something about lazy Millennials and I resist the urge to explain Gen Z.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“The official title for our newscasts is ‘Eyewitness News’ but among reporters and photographers it’s ‘What Matters to Lou.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“We know major stuff’s coming. And it’s not raises.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Airing storm video in Phoenix is like airing police chases in L.A.: practically everyone drops what they’re doing to watch.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Yeah, we reporters can still learn things by talking to people, not computers.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Nailing the reporter is easy. He spends more time on his hair than the other three combined.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Nearby, JJ is sucking up to someone she hopes can lead her out of the Sonoran Desert and into the Hollywood Hills.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“TV news has taught me vigilance can make the difference between being safe and becoming a victim.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“I’m like the local cop who gets screwed over when the feds come to town.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Her embrace is an unwelcome reminder the rumor mill is stronger than my reporting.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Every role is essential. But not equal. At the end of the day, everyone knows who gets the most credit.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“I will not let the biggest story of my career walk out the door.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Christina Estes
“Have you seen our ratings, Jolene? It’s like we’re back in the nineties. People are watching local TV news again!”
Christina Estes

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