News Quotes

People essentially like local news better than network news.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

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.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

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.

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.