"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me"

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"

"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"

"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty"