Quotes About News

Far too interesting are times when you wake up to find that the tube line you take to work has been blown up and people you know might be dead. Not interesting enough are times when too much stuff about county cricket makes it on to the news pages.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.

We tune in to news companies for them to give us some sense of grounded assessment of what the truth is.

If you read every newspaper or listened to every radio station and behaved as if your life depended on that, then you would be in an emotional turmoil. Essentially, you have to stay true to yourself. That is enough.

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

As someone who asks questions for a living, there are few things that annoy me more than people who won't ask for themselves. Social media is a great help, but so is something as simple as turning on your television or powering up your laptop to watch a smart news show.

Winning the presidential election with 70 percent of turnout is excellent news. I'm very moved.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.

Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

TV news is not very instructive.

TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

I do strive to be the Andy Kaufman of TV news.

Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

When it was announced that I was going to be on 'Castle,' there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from 'Firefly' fans hoping for a nod to the series - some encrypted business just for them! I can't promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill.