News Quotes

"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news"

"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"

Norman Lear, Producer

"There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real"

Willie Herenton, Politician

"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy"

Jonathan Klein, Businessman

"News is the first rough draft of history"

Phil Graham, Businessman

"Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way"

Robert Greenwald, Director

"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"

Lesley Stahl, Journalist

"Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before"

Ray Nagin

"Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen"

Keith Olbermann, Journalist

"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology"

James Reston, Journalist

"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do"

Ted Nelson, Author

"When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd"

Mark E. Hyman, Celebrity

"The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination"

Peter Chernin

"No news is good news"

Ludovic Halevy, Author

"Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly"

Adrienne Clarkson, Journalist

"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress"

Liz Smith, Journalist

"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary"

Kamal Ahmed, Comedian

"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio"

John Hurt, Actor

"To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different"

Jerry Springer, Celebrity

"The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always"

Mark E. Hyman, Celebrity

"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising"

Mark E. Hyman, Celebrity

"American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution"

Evan Thomas

"Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman"

Shepard Smith, Journalist

"Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time"

John Gunther, Journalist

"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"

Tony Brown

"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"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"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever"

John Gunther, Journalist

"I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people"

Bill Alexander, Politician

"I want to democratize business news"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private"

Michael Schiavo, Celebrity

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