Quotes About News

I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming.

My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

Trump may not like the fact that 20-plus anonymous sources provided the 'Times' with an unflattering portrait of his campaign, but that doesn't make it 'false.' Of course, Trump had no problem with news outlets running with his made-up claim in 2011 that President Obama 'doesn't have a birth certificate.'

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent "studying" the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it impact your current knowledge of the world.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

In the complex world, the notion of "cause" itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined—another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

newspapers do not have to have a screaming headline saying that nothing new is taking place (though the Bible was smart enough to declare ein chadash tachat hashemesh—" nothing new under the sun," providing the information that things just do recur).

Listening to the news on the radio every hour is far worse for you than reading a weekly magazine, because the longer interval allows information to be filtered a bit.

people often think that it will surely be the next batch of news that will really make a difference to their understanding of things.)

minimize time spent reading newspapers

why does reading the newspaper actually decrease your knowledge of the world?

and news shared with millions gives you no real advantage.

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time