Quotes About News

None loves the messenger who brings bad news.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press… There is room for all of us – and for our divergent views – under the First Amendment.

Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring.

She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past while the business men in the carriage talked about news in the papers— awful, as usual— their golf, their gardeners, and the detective stories they were reading.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.

The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.