The Great Reporter
by Robert B. Sibley
I am the greatest reporter of them all.
No man has ever equalled my feats of accurate news
gathering. No metropolitan star has ever garnered the
minute detail I have assembled; no keen political writer or
world-famed war correspondent has ever done what I
have done; no veteran newspaper man has seen and
covered the mass of men, things and events that I have seen
and covered.
This is fact. I do not mean to be boastful. I was
an expert on my first assignment as on my most recent.
No cub stage for me.
No school of journalism counts me among its graduates.
I never spent an hour in any classroom.
Yet I have seen all, and faithfully reported. Presidents,
kings and princes; paupers, grafters and convicts;
prominent citizens, plain citizens, magnates and laborers;
great cities decked in splendor, whole states torn and
devastated; victory and defeat.
This is all fact. I do not mean to be boastful. The
greatest of my works was easy for me. And I have
never erred.
I am the greatest reporter of them all.
I am the news camera.
From a poster hanging in the New York Times photo department, 1942.
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