Quotes About News

Tsunamis are always big news around Hilo, grew up always getting ready to escape a tsunami.

The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I wanted to be out in the field in conflict areas, documenting real life rather than political theater.

I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

Gospel in its definition is good news.

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

I have a few grey hairs. I dye them. I don't let them show when I'm reading the news.

My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

I read the Guardian when I can get it, but I have to admit I mostly turn to the sport.

Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.

I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news.

Like there's any difference between the quality of "news" since the Media's gone out.

Unlike so many "reporters" today, they knew the difference between objective reporting of news and hyping things up to entertain the audience—and bump up their ratings.)

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.