Quotes About News

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

CNN has a thing called You Choose the News. Y'know what CNN? I'm turning you on because I don't know the news. I was hoping you could help me.

The Gospel is 'Good News', not 'Good History', because when it's preached, it happens.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

The first rough draft of history.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Journalism is the first draft of history

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

News is history shot on the wing.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.