Quotes About News

I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites. That troubles me. People like that hear bad news from across the world, and they burst into wails and tears as though their own children have just been run over by a bus. To me, they don't seem very different from actors and actresses—they are able to burst into tears on command, but does it really mean anything?

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.

We no longer watch television news but, in the language of the broadcasting bosses, 'consume' it.

In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news—and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.

In an individual one would regard it as evidence of insanity to see someone repeatedly undertaking enterprises that resulted in his losing precisely what he claimed he was trying to achieve; it is not less lunatic to do it on the international scale, but if youve been catching the news lately youll have noticed its being done more than ever.

Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

She wasn't afraid that Nils wouldn't accept the news well. He always accepted everything with equanimity, because he said everything had its reason.

But that's just the news, isn't it. They make their money out of having ordinary people on the edge of their seats all the time and fretting over every little thing.' 'But

She had an internal clock set to her mother's hunger for news, but sometimes it felt good to ignore it.

The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

I think the vision for FOX is to have a network full of people who have opinions as opposed to people who say news. If my message doesn't fit in, but I get that platform, then I'm reaching the people who most need to hear it.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits.