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News Quotes
"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
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"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."
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"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."
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"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."
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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
"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."
"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
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"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"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."
"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."
"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."
"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it."
"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
"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."
"When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?"
"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."
"We report the news. Fox talks about the news."
"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
"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."
"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!"
"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."
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"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."
"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."
"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."
"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."
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"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."
"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane."
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"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."
"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
"What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news."
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"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."
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