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News Quotes
"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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"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."
46
"No news is good news unless it is told."
46
"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,
45
"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."
44
"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."
42
"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."
41
"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane."
News,
39
"Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped."
39
"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."
36
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
36
"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."
36
"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!"
35
"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
35
"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
News,
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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."
News,
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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."
32
"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
31
"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."
31
"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."
30
"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
30
"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
29
"Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen."
28
"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
27
"When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?"
27
"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."
27
"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."
News,
27
"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
News,
26
"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."
26
"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."
26
"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
26
"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
26
"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."
25
"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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