"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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

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