News Quotes

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.

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

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

No news is good news.

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

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.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

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.

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

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.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

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?