News Quotes

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.