News Quotes

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

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

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

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

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

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

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

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.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

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.

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.