Quotes About News

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

Bill O'Reilly is smooth. He's one of very few broadcasters I know who can squeeze a weeks-long news cycle from one incident and make it entertaining regardless the time stamp.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Oftentimes it feels like Fox stands alone in the media on certain stories.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Hours spent daily watching your television news will do more to add to your depression than to alleviate your feelings of helplessness.

Reading through the reviews, I feel as though I am witnessing a much more erudite and informed preview of the Fox News/MSNBC shouting matches of today.

Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be known and to do things for which it will be praised and admired. But grace does not care to hear news or curious matters, because all this arises from the old corruption of man, since there is nothing new, nothing lasting on earth.

The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?

Doctor: I have some good news and some bad news. Patient: What's the good news? Doctor: The tests you took showed that you have twenty-four hours to live. Patient:That's the good news? What's the bad news? Doctor: I forgot to call you yesterday.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.

People are so accustomed now to social networking. Now everybody has custom-made news for him or her. So everybody is a content maker and a content reactor.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.

I read the 'New York Times' every day and I would do that even if I didn't need to do it for my job!

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?