Quotes About News

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

I just get my news from the Internet.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

If you're not competitive, if you're not out to make a mark, you shouldn't be in the news business.

Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

The right-wingness of Fox is basically the news channel. I don't think the broadcast network has any politics at all. It's sub-political at best.

If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.

If I do commentary, write articles, or am an expert on a news channel, I can still earn money.