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News Quotes
"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."
8
"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
7
"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."
News,
7
"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
6
"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!"
5
"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."
5
"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."
3
"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
3
"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
3
"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."
3
"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
3
"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
2
"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."
2
"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
News,
2
"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
News,
2
"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
News,
2
"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."
2
"When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?"
2
"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
2
"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."
2
"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."
2
"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
2
"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane."
News,
2
"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."
2
"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
2
"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."
2
"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."
2
"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."
News,
2
"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."
2
"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
2
"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."
News,
2
"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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