Quotes About Journalism

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

If you're not competitive, if you're not out to make a mark, you shouldn't be in the news business.

We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.