News Quotes

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

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

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.

Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I want to democratize business news.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

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