Dilbert: What makes you qualified to be a reporter?
Dogbert: I'm willing to violate anyone's privacy for my personal gain and then claim with a straight face that the public has a right to know.
Dogbert: I'm willing to violate anyone's privacy for my personal gain and then claim with a straight face that the public has a right to know.
"If I killed all the reporters, there'd be news from Hell before breakfast."
—Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, on the reporters (whom he likened to spies) who would sneak into camp, interview loose-tongued soldiers, then publish secret information.
The Will: I'm impressed. I had an actual piece of this ship and a bloodhound to follow the scent... but we still nearly got beat here by the infamous Doff and Upsher.
Upsher: It's Upsher and Doff, motherfucker! Writers get first byline!
Upsher: It's Upsher and Doff, motherfucker! Writers get first byline!
—Saga
Jimmy Olsen: And I'm gonna get closer to whatever's messing up downtown.
Random Rescued Kid: What?! Why?
Jimmy: So I can take a picture of it.
Random Rescued Kid: What?! Why?
Jimmy: So I can take a picture of it.
Call me whacked, everyone does, just don't call me a Thrill Seeker. No, no, no. Perspective: car surfing's a thrill, sprinting across railway bridges is a thrill. War reporting isn't a thrill. It's an assignment, it's a duty. It's why they don't hand out Pulitzers for base jumping. It's about redefining your view of mortality. For yourself, and for the other guys. To tell people it's not indiscriminate death, period, it's indiscriminate death, comma. Someone has to be the hell-chaser.
—Daniel Bach, The Secret World
My father braved booby-trapped marshes and the wrath of generals for the sake of his journalistic integrity. What kind of mockery of his life would it be if his daughter bailed when things got a little tough?
—Luisa Ray, Cloud Atlas
"Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this."
—Marty Baron, Spotlight
Lois Lane: Don't try to be cute. You're lucky I'm letting you fly me there. Once we hit the ground, it's every reporter for herself.
Superman: Unless I get something really juicy.
Lois: Ah. Learning.
Superman: Unless I get something really juicy.
Lois: Ah. Learning.
If there was a story involved, she'd go to hell itself to get it.
— Harry Dresden on Susan Rodriguez, The Dresden Files: Fool Moon
You uncover falsehood and hypocrisy. You attack privilege and decry villainy. And if the path here was not always straight, your results speak for themselves nonetheless.
— Publishing An edition brimming with truth and wisdom in your own Newspaper, Fallen London
