News Quotes

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've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

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.

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.

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

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.