Quotes About News

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.

In Kenya particularly, we have a lot to say - we're sort of obsessed with politics. We have three nightly news broadcasts, predominantly bad politics.

If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

At the Hoho's Family Restaurant, Beverly treats herself to peanut butter pancakes and world news.

But bad news came at night, as if the sun were already in mourning.

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Boy Guide Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Thirteen Observation #1: Boys are unpredictable. This may not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Re: OMG OMG OMG you kissed FINN??? not evan…FINN??? WHEN? WHY? FOR HOW LONG? HOW CAN YOU E-MAIL ME WITH THIS NEWS AND NOT ELABORATE AT ALL? And forget me, where the hell are YOU!!??? ---Original Message--- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: OMG OMG OMG I KISSED FINN! I KISSED FINN! OMG I KISSED FINN. WHERE ARE YOU!!!???

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful

On a personal note, even though I have a professional interest in hazard and risk, I never watch the local television news and haven't for years. Try this and you'll likely find better things to do before going to sleep than looking at thirty minutes of disturbing images presented with artificial urgency and the usually false implication that it's critical for you to see it.)

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

In this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.