Quotes on News

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

Author: Kamal Ahmed

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

Author: Roone Arledge

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

Author: Spencer Bachus

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

Author: Javier Bardem

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

Author: Bernard Baruch

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Author: Sandra Bernhard

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Author: Ben Bradlee

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Author: Ed Bradley

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

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

Author: Jeff Bridges

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Author: David Brinkley

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Author: David Brinkley

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Author: James Brooks

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

Author: Aaron Brown

The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.

Author: Malcolm Campbell

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Author: Arthur Christiansen

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

Author: Warren Christopher

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

Author: Connie Chung

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Author: Jean Cocteau

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

Author: Richard Codey

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

Author: David Cross

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

Author: Phil Donahue

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

Author: Matt Drudge

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

Author: R. Ermey

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Author: Henry Fielding

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.

Author: Harrison Ford

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Author: Anne Frank

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Author: Fred Friendly

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Author: Andrew Greeley

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

Author: William Greider

No news is good news.

Author: Ludovic Halevy

The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.

Author: Mary Hart

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Author: Mary Hart

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Author: Matthew Henry

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

Author: Willie Herenton

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Author: Don Hewitt

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Author: Ian Hislop

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Author: Eric Hoffer

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

Author: Bob Hope

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

Author: Reed Hundt

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

Author: John Hurt

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

Author: William Hurt

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Author: Lady Johnson

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Author: Val Kilmer

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

Author: Val Kilmer

I'm very wary of news on television.

Author: Val Kilmer

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

Author: Jonathan Klein

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.

Author: Jonathan Klein

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

Author: Charles Kuralt

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Author: T. Lawrence

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.

Author: Norman Lear

There's no new news.

Author: Tommy Lee

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Author: Kurt Loder

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Author: Kurt Loder

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.

Author: John Mayall

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

Author: Jane Mayer

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

Author: John Mellencamp

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

Author: Edward Murrow

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Author: Ogden Nash

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me.

Author: Kevin Nealon

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

Author: P. O'Rourke

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

Author: Frank Rich

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

Author: Frank Rich

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Author: Andy Rooney

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

Author: Stuart Rothenberg

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.

Author: Mike Rounds

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

Author: Jessica Savitch

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Author: Sydney Schanberg

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

Author: Sydney Schanberg

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Author: Ron Schiller

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Author: Charlie Sheen

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

Author: Charlie Sheen

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

Author: Joel Siegel

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

Author: Shepard Smith

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

Author: Tabitha Soren

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

Author: Tabitha Soren

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

Author: Tabitha Soren

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.

Author: Tabitha Soren

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Author: Aaron Sorkin

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Author: Larry Speakes

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Author: Lesley Stahl

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

Author: Jon Stewart

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

Author: Gay Talese

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press.

Author: Henry Villard

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

Author: Voltaire

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

Author: Jim Walton

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Author: Sam Waterston

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

Author: Paul Weyrich

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

Author: Judy Woodruff

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

Author: Konrad Zuse

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Author: Thomas Jefferson