Quotes About News

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

Cable TV? Stressful? Never.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

I don't really think of 'Frontline' as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong.

The people we want in our news prime-time space now are strongly opinionated people who I think, for the most part, attract audiences of like-minded people, who want to know 'what's our side thinking right now?'

We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

While there continue to be critics of the Comcast-NBC merger, it's hard to argue that competition in news and entertainment has diminished as a result, given the rise of Netflix and Amazon and the explosion in entertainment options that followed the merger.

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.

The world has changed - we can all get news 24/7 from any device, any outlet... but we want to tell different stories in different ways, and add to the news.

The news now continues all night, whether it's politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o'clock at night.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

I don't think a lot of the news outlets examine the effect of war on a family.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.