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Quotes About News

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
~ Jerry Springer
Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.
~ Michael Jackson
Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.
~ Preston Manning
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
~ Natalie Portman
The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
~ Magic Johnson
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.
~ Will Rogers
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
~ Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
Grant himself.14 "Hereafter," he resolved, "I intend to be careful not to give them any news worth publishing."15
~ William C. Davis
It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
~ William Carlos Williams
The news which the gospel hath in its mouth to tell us poor sinners is good. It speaks promises, and they are significations of some good intended by God for poor sinners.
~ William Gurnall
Faith tells the soul what Christ hath done for it, and so comforts it. Hope revives the soul with news of what Christ will do. Both draw at one tap—Christ and his promise.
~ William Gurnall
He'd [Cork] delivered tragic news before. It had been part of the job, but he'd never become immune to he effect tragedy had on those who had to hear of it, and he'd never become used to his own feeling of helplessness in those situations.
~ William Kent Krueger
Es gibt keine gute Nachricht. Nur weil es eine schlechte Nachricht gibt, muss es nicht zwangsläufig gute Nachrichten geben.
~ David Benioff
Their stories have gone underreported. Even as news and information inundate us, the proliferation of people building new organizations to address social problems—millions of them—remains
~ David Bornstein
When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
~ David Brinkley
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
~ David Brinkley
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
~ David Byrne
The news isn't all positive in relation to regional accents. There are pockets of resistance to the general trend, some quite influential. A report in the Independent (7 March 2017) was headed: Banking jobs denied to young people due to having 'wrong accents
~ David Crystal
Journalisms' once Holy Mantra of "who, what, where, when and, sometimes how," has been thoroughly eradicated by a ravenous creature of 24/7 photo-ops and sound bites.
~ David Gustafson
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
~ David Halberstam
Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
~ David Halberstam
I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story)
~ David Halberstam
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.
~ David Halberstam