News Quotes

"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda"

"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news"

"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell"

"Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"Nothing in fine print is ever good news"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like"

Erik Qualman, Author

"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Journalism as theater is what TV news is"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped"

Stuart Rothenberg

"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues"

Erik Qualman, Author

"I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts"

David Guterson, Author

"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect"

Saul Williams, Musician

"This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort"

Amos Oz, Writer

"It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now"

Alex Cox, Director

"We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

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