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Quotes About News

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
~ George Osborne
Dark wings, dark words.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dark wings, dark words," Ned said grimly.
~ George R.R. Martin
Tyrion. "None." "A pity. Well, the threat may serve to keep the Marcher lords close to their castles, at least. What news of my father?" "If Lord Tywin has won across the Red Fork, no word has reached me yet. If he does not hasten, he may be trapped between his foes. The Oakheart leaf and the Rowan tree have been seen north of the Mander." "No word from Littlefinger?" "Perhaps he never reached
~ George R.R. Martin
A imprensa argentina continuou a ridicularizar o Paraguai, e nenhuma ação foi tomada depois da chegada das notícias a respeito da ocupação das cidades Orientais pelos brasileiros, e falou-se que o Paraguai não iria sair do seu casulo.
~ George Thompson
The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
~ George W. Bush
Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.
~ George W. Bush
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.
~ Samuel Bowles
If a man bites a dog, that is news.
~ John Bogart
There's villainous news abroad.
~ William Shakespeare
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
~ Voltaire
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.
~ Harry A. Overstreet
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.
~ Earl Warren
News is the first rough draft of history.
~ Benjamin Bradlee
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
~ Wilbur F. Storey
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.
~ Lester Markel
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
~ Fred Friendley
AH I know is what I see in the papers.
~ Will Rogers
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
~ Art Buchwald
People like murder, Peabody. They jive on it when it's got at least one of those degrees of separation. Reading about it, watching vids about it, turning on the evening news to hear about it. As long as it isn't too close.
~ J.D. Robb
I got some news anyway. She dropped her hands. Mavis is knocked up. Oh my God. Mavis was attacked? No, it was Leonardo. Mira clutched a hand to her breast. Shock radiated onto her face. Leonardo? Leonardo beat Mavis? Beat her? No, he banged her. You know, knocked her up. Confused, Eve shook her head, then began to laugh as the light dawned. Sperm meets egg, she managed as she had her first genuine laugh of the day. She's pregnant.
~ J.D. Robb
you know what they say about messengers, right? Excuse me? Too much bad news will get you shot.[...]
~ J.R. Ward
So I want to share a little news. You getting married? Butch tossed back half the new Lag. Where you registered? Crate and Bury 'Em? Try Heckler and Koch. The Reverend opened his jacket and flashed the butt of a forty. Nice little poodle shooter you got there, vampire. Put a hell of a- V cut in. You two are like playing tennis, and racquet sports bore me. What's the news? Revh looked at Butch. He has such phenomenal people skills, doesn't he. Try living with him.
~ J.R. Ward