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News Quotes
"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."
News,
12
"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."
12
"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
12
"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."
12
"We report the news. Fox talks about the news."
11
"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
11
"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."
11
"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."
11
"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,
11
"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
News,
10
"When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?"
10
"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."
News,
10
"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,
10
"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."
News,
10
"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."
9
"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."
9
"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it."
9
"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
9
"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."
9
"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."
9
"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
8
"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
8
"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
8
"The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer."
News,
8
"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."
8
"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
8
"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
News,
7
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
7
"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
7
"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."
6
"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."
5
"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."
5
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