Quotes About News

I don't like the news on the radio. It's always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What's more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.

It happens that way when a man strives to become the centre of attention, to bring sensational news somewhere.

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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

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She's doped up watching MTV and I want to watch the goddamn MacNeil/Lehrer report.

The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

His theory is that the news media have gone way too far and the trend has to be stopped—almost like he was talking about federal spending. He's fixed on the subject and doesn't care how much time it takes; he wants it done. To him, the question is no less than the very integrity of government and basic loyalty. He thinks the press is out to get him and therefore is disloyal; people who talk to the press are even worse—the enemies within, or something like that.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

Barnette Wittlefield met with the commander-in-chief every morning at four-thirty a.m. bringing news of the latest subpoenas along with four bags of Egg McMuffins.

I bet he's MSNBC. They'll try to bust him out. Happens all the time. Don't you pay attention to the news?" The chief didn't need to ask which network she'd been watching. He said, "We've got no evidence Beltrán is a gang member. And it's MS-13, not MSNBC.

The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of innocents everywhere.

In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.

News is unusual things happening— And usual things happening [...] But news is mainly what someone somewhere doesn't want you to put in the paper— Except that sometimes it isn't [...] News, [...] all depends. But you'll know it when you see it.

But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She'd never bought it and seen a little sign that said 'Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that'.

Because feeling uncomfortable is what a college education is all about—being exposed to disturbing aspects of human experience. We're talking about twentysomething adults who are exposed to a lot worse in the daily news. I'm not going to infantilize them.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

I think journalism is important.

I believe frontline journalism is important.