News Quotes: Daily Dose of Headline Wisdom

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

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

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

"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"

Hodding Carter, Journalist

"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"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"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"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"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"

Henry Villard, Journalist

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

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

Sophocles, Author

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"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"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"To the old, the new is usually bad news"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories"

Dave Barry, Author

"He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news"

John Le Carre, Author

"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"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"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"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"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

"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"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"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"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

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