Don't report what he says, report what he means.

-Anonymous
  Unwritten reporters'rule for covering Senator Barry Goldwater's campaign for presidential nomination. Quoted in Robert MacNeil The Right Place at the Right Time (1982).

A good report maketh the bones fat.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs15:30.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

I have always felt that whatever Divine Providence permitted to occur I was not too proud to report.

-Dana, Charles Anderson
  The Art of Newspaper Making,'The Modern  American Newspaper'.

Ich kann nur berichten, was ich weiÞ. I can only report on what I know.

-Frisch, Max Rudolph
  Homo Faber, pt.1.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

-Griswold, Alfred Whitney
  Baccalaureate address, 9  Jun.

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.

-Lippmann,Walter
  Public Opinion, ch.23.

The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at the bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies.What is really at issue is the right to report events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic,  Jan.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  In the NewYorkJournal, 2 Jun.This was the substance of Twain's cable to theAssociated Press in response to the news item that he had died.