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Quotes About News

I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.
~ Jeff Zucker
I don't trust CNN anchors.
~ Matt Gaetz
With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.
~ Jacque Fresco
Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
~ Jim Walton
As long as you are a trusted source of news, the distribution channel doesn't matter as much. If we have to move to tablets or phones, that's fine.
~ Steve Capus
We want to develop into a really trusted name that people turn to because they want to know what's going on in the country.
~ Margarita Simonyan
One of the first and most important times someone put their faith in me was when I first worked at ITN, one of the news and entertainment editors trusted me with producing and presenting the 4Music breakfast news. I'd been a runner and did researcher work but I had very little experience in front of the screen.
~ Vick Hope
You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.
~ Tom Brokaw
Critics say that Fox News leans right, but the truth is, it's more centrist - it just looks right-wing in comparison to the other news outlets.
~ Steve Bannon
If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.
~ Peter Sagal
I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.
~ Catherine Crier
You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.
~ Chris Cuomo
I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
~ Angelina Jolie
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.
~ Anna Quindlen
Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.
~ Annie E. Clark
There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.
~ Bethany Cosentino
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
~ Brit Hume
Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be
~ Connie Chung
If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.
~ David Gergen
News items are excellent for eliciting fear and inculcating phobias. Cult leaders like to tell members about floods, earthquakes, fires, famines, plagues, and wars–as proof that the last days have arrived.
~ Steven Hassan
Yes, indeed, Senator Pinarius. It's because the author mentions his dealings with the late Marcus, blessed be his memory, and with Commodus, blessed be his reign. Anything to do with the imperial family is always guaranteed to sell, and with today's awful news, people are hungry to read anything to do with the beloved Marcus.
~ Steven Saylor
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly
~ Stewart Brand