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Quotes About News

Political bias is less insidious in modern media than economic bias— in which news is just another kind of marketing, as packaged and focus-group tested as politics and music and dish soap.
~ Joe Trippi
Well, the bad news," Swedish said from the wheel, "is that Chess still thinks he's funny." "What's the good news?" Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. "That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?
~ Joel N. Ross
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
~ Leslie Banks
All news is an exaggeration of life.
~ Daniel Schorr
Over 80% of the media can't stand Donald Trump in the US. I've never seen a more biased media in my entire life, except Rob Ford. But outside of that I have not seen a more biased media.
~ Doug Ford, Jr.
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
~ Chris Cleave
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
~ Burton Rascoe
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
~ John Lahr
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
~ Sally Quinn
Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.
~ silent lotus
I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
~ Tom Petty
When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Okay, so I'm completely undignified. As soon as school got out, I ran up to Kim, Nora and Cricket on the quad and told them the news. They were completely surprised and excited: Cricket was even jumping up an down. "Shiv! Ag!" she yelled. "He's fine ," said Nora, giggling. "Have you seen him in his rugby uniform? He has some serious legs," said Kim. "How did it happen?" Cricket wanted to know. I told all. They wanted to know more. "What did it feel like?" Electricity.
~ E. Lockhart
Naturally, that doesn't mean that all the news which now reaches us from all over the world is true. One of the things I also learned was not to believe everything I read in the newspapers.
~ E.H. Gombrich
reporters bumping into
~ Edna Buchanan
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
~ Edward Abbey
Journalism is organized gossip.
~ Edward Egglestone
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
~ Anonymous
Top people take The Times.
~ Anonymous
Every time I look at the news, I come one step close to becoming one of those Bond villains who is intent on destroying the world.
~ Anonymous
that overeager reporters would somehow
~ Anthony Flacco
The strange thing was that he was more relaxed, now, after being told the news. It was as if he had always been expecting it and was merely grateful that, at last, it had been delivered.
~ Anthony Horowitz