300 Quotes on News

• 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

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

  Author: Konrad Zuse

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

  Author: Thom Yorke

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

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

  Author: Esther Williams

• There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

  Author: Ryan White

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

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• 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

• Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

  Author: Jim Walton

• 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.

  Author: Jim Walton

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

  Author: Jim Walton

• 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.

  Author: Jim Walton

• With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

  Author: Chris Wallace

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

  Author: Voltaire

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• 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.

  Author: Evan Thomas

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

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

  Author: William Tammeus

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

  Author: Gay Talese

• Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

  Author: David Talbot

• Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• 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.

  Author: Payne Stewart

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

  Author: Jon Stewart

• When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• 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

• To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

  Author: Jerry Springer

• Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

  Author: Mickey Spillane

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

  Author: Larry Speakes

• Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  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

• 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

• If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

  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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

  Author: Sophocles

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

  Author: Shepard Smith

• Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

  Author: Liz Smith

• Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

  Author: Liz Smith

• My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

  Author: Peter Singer

• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  Author: Michael Simpson

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

  Author: Joel Siegel

• Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

  Author: Joel Siegel

• Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

  Author: David Shuster

• 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

• 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 good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

  Author: John Shadegg

• It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

  Author: Reese Schonfeld

• 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

• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• 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

• 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

• The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

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

  Author: Joe Scarborough

• Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

  Author: John Sayles

• I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• 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.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

  Author: Pat Sajak

• The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

  Author: Mercedes Ruehl

• When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

  Author: Marco Rubio

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

  Author: Rick Ross

• I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

  Author: Stephen Root

• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

  Author: Mimi Rogers

• I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• 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

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

  Author: Frank Rich

• For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

  Author: Frank Rich

• False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

  Author: Adrienne Rich

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

  Author: James Reston

• If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

  Author: James Reston

• The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

  Author: Richard Reeves

• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

  Author: Ted Rall

• Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

  Author: Michael Powell

• Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

  Author: Colin Powell

• Literature is news that stays news.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

  Author: Pete Pont

• My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

  Author: David Plouffe

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

  Author: Donald Pleasence

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

  Author: Peace Pilgrim

• The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

  Author: Liz Phair

• TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

  Author: Tom Petty

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't.

  Author: Richard Parsons

• I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

  Author: Robert Parker

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

  Author: Kerry Packer

• But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

  Author: Amos Oz

• 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.

  Author: Wilfred Owen

• 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

• This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

  Author: Bill O'Reilly

• Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

  Author: Lord Northcliffe

• Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.

  Author: Olivia Newton-John

• People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• 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.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.

  Author: Graham Nelson

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

  Author: Kevin Nealon

• 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

• Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

  Author: Ray Nagin

• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Author: Dick Morris

• This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

  Author: Rita Moreno

• 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.

  Author: Matthew Modine

• 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.

  Author: Maria Menounos

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

  Author: John Mellencamp

• Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

  Author: Donella Meadows

• 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.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  Author: Aaron McGruder

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

  Author: Aaron McGruder

• I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

  Author: Christa McAuliffe

• 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

• 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

• I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

  Author: Robert Matsui

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  Author: Taryn Manning

• 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.

  Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

  Author: Arthur Machen

• I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.

  Author: Rebecca Loos

• I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

  Author: Jonah Lomu

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

  Author: Kurt Loder

• 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.

  Author: Kurt Loder

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

  Author: Kurt Loder

• Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

  Author: Kurt Loder

• 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

• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  Author: A. Liebling

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

  Author: Huey Lewis

• Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.

  Author: David Letterman

• We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

  Author: David Letterman

• People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

  Author: Jim Lehrer

• People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

  Author: Jim Lehrer

• There's no new news.

  Author: Tommy Lee

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• 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

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

  Author: T. Lawrence

• News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• 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!

  Author: Christine Lahti

• At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

  Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

• 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

• Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

  Author: Milan Kundera

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  Author: Barbara Kruger

• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  Author: Barbara Kruger

• The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

  Author: Michael Korda

• 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

• We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

  Author: Jonathan Klein

• You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

  Author: Joe Klein

• I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

  Author: Calvin Klein

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

  Author: Larry King

• I'm very wary of news 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

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

  Author: Val Kilmer

• The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'

  Author: Craig Kilborn

• God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

  Author: Charles Kettering

• Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.

  Author: Stan Jones

• As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

  Author: Harry Johnston

• House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

  Author: Nancy Johnson

• No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

  Author: Lady Johnson

• If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

  Author: Peter Jennings

• Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

  Author: Michael Jeffery

• I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

  Author: Tito Jackson

• People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

  Author: Michael Jackson

• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Author: Lance Ito

• 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.

  Author: Mark Hyman

• The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

  Author: Mark Hyman

• The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

  Author: Mark Hyman

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

  Author: William Hurt

• 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

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

  Author: Reed Hundt

• I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

  Author: Brit Hume

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

  Author: Brit Hume

• Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

  Author: Brit Hume

• Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

  Author: Brit Hume

• 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.

  Author: Brit Hume

• We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

  Author: Brit Hume

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

  Author: Bob Hope

• The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

  Author: Chris Hollen

• To the old, the new is usually bad news.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• 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

• Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

  Author: Martina Hingis

• The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

  Author: Jim Hightower

• But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

  Author: Jim Hightower

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Matthew Henry

• When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

  Author: Helen Hayes

• There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

  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

• People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

  Author: Mary Hart

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

  Author: Mary Hart

• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Author: Daniel Hannan

• It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

  Author: Lasse Hallstrom

• No news is good news.

  Author: Ludovic Halevy

• They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting.

  Author: Charlie Haas

• I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

  Author: David Guterson

• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

  Author: John Gunther

• 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.

  Author: John Gunther

• I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

  Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  Author: Umberto Guidoni

• The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

  Author: Thomas Griffith

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

  Author: William Greider

• Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way.

  Author: Robert Greenwald

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

  Author: Andrew Greeley

• News is the first rough draft of history.

  Author: Philip Graham

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

  Author: Bernard Goldberg

• During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

  Author: Philip Gibbs

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Marie France

• 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

• We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

  Author: Carlisle Floyd

• I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

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

  Author: Henry Fielding

• The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  Author: R. Ermey

• 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?

  Author: Jane Elliot

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Author: Larry Elder

• In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

  Author: Bob Edwards

• That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

  Author: Bob Edwards

• I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

  Author: Bob Edwards

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

  Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

• There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

  Author: Finley Dunne

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

  Author: Matt Drudge

• I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

  Author: Matt Drudge

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

  Author: Matt Drudge

• If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

  Author: Matt Drudge

• Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

  Author: Matt Drudge

• Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

  Author: Matt Drudge

• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  Author: Sam Donaldson

• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  Author: Sam Donaldson

• 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.

  Author: Sam Donaldson

• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  Author: Sam Donaldson

• I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

  Author: Phil Donahue

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

  Author: Phil Donahue

• 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

• Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

  Author: Indra Devi

• The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

  Author: Johnny Depp

• Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

  Author: Clifton Daniel

• You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

  Author: James Daly

• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

  Author: Mario Cuomo

• 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

• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

  Author: Walter Cronkite

• It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.

  Author: Alex Cox

• They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

  Author: Katie Couric

• That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.

  Author: Katie Couric

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