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News Quotes
"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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"No news is good news unless it is told."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."
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"Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped."
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
50
"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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"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
49
"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
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"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
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"Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen."
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"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!"
43
"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
43
"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."
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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."
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"When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?"
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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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