Quotes About News

Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and over in the background from the time I wake until the time I finally, blessedly, fall asleep.

The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.

The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.

Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.

The first thing I do after waking up is check my phone for news. I like to make sure the world is still here and understand what happened overnight.

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

I'm a pretty big news junkie.

If I'm bored at home, I'll probably just log on to ESPN.com.

Everything isn't breaking news. You can't go to DEFCON One just because Sanjay Gupta found a new moisturizer.

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

One of my roles, and one of the things I'm good at, is breaking news.

Im prepping every day because biggest breaking news in the world or no games the night before, I have a show to do for an hour every day.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

Imagine what you could do if you had the ability to broadcast live video from anywhere, anytime. It changes the way news is gathered.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

I feel like every time I tweeted something that was a little opinionated, or every time I posted something on Tumblr that seemed a little private, it's all of a sudden making news relationship-wise.

For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.