Quotes About News

Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or the Oscars. However, some are particularly drawn to material that makes them feel shocked, frightened, insecure, or indignant, and that's what potato-chip news often provides.

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.

I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here." Windham

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

So they declared a new emperor. And he sent a threatening letter to Maxen. However, it was not so much a letter as 'If you come and if you ever come to Rome!' That letter and the news came to Maxen in Caerllion. And from there he sent a letter to the man who claimed to be emperor of Rome. There was in that letter, too, nothing but 'If I go to Rome, and if I go!

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

Americans love to read about violence.

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting