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Quotes About News

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
~ Ted Koppel
Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social services comes from this feeling of social commitment and responsibility. We don't do all this to be in the news.
~ Poonam Dhillon
If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
~ Jonathan Van Ness
I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.
~ Lewis Black
I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.
~ David Gregory
I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
~ Pierre Salinger
There's one thing I've never seen in a paper. Jamie Carragher linked with this or that club.
~ Jamie Carragher
I'm in the intriguing position of being a friend of Jeremy Corbyn and knowing him personally. It's quite a strange position to know somebody that's in the news and know the person who they're talking about and taking pictures of.
~ Jeremy Hardy
It is with a heavy heart that I learn of Joe Manganiello, a.k.a. my wolfy Twitter boo, is seeing one Ms. Sofia Vergara.
~ Retta
In 1993, I joined Reuters as a correspondent in its Cairo bureau.
~ Mona Eltahawy
I came to know about my father joining BJP through the media.
~ Prosenjit Chatterjee
I think that there's a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what's in the news but actually point-of-view-driven stuff.
~ Nish Kumar
The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.
~ Frank Dane
I've just had very bad news." "What's the good news inside it? There's always good news wrapped up in bad news." "Jesus God, I don't know." "But there is." "That's ludicrously optimistic." Lelia said, "You'll have to use smaller words, you're in Clare now." Ronan
~ Frank Delaney
It is a fact increasingly manifest that presentation of real news has sharpened the minds and the judgment of men and women everywhere in these days of real public discussion. We Americans begin to know the difference between the truth on the one side and the falsehood on the other, no matter how often the falsehood is iterated and reiterated. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news.
~ Fred Rogers
Meldungen stürzen die Welt nie um. Das tun die Tatsachen, die wir nun einmal nicht ändern können, da sie schon geschehen sind, wenn die Meldungen eintreffen. Die Meldungen regen die Welt nur auf, man gewöhne sie sich deshalb so weit als möglich ab.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Never trust a man who tells you good news.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.
~ Brandon Sanderson
She'd been killed by her own personal assistant, news that Charlotte believed had come as a terrible shock to everyone in the city except the thousands of other personal assistants who dreamed, daily, of doing the same thing.
~ Brenda Cullerton
A message was scribbled on the wall: Life is for sale. Alert the news for the media .
~ Henning Mankell
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
~ Henry David Thoreau