News Quotes

NBC News will help define Comcast.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

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.

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?