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If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins. (Quote by - Sam Zell)

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell. (Quote by - Michael Jackson)

They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting. (Quote by - Charlie Haas)

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. (Quote by - Adam Arkin)

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. (Quote by - Andrew Greeley)

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. (Quote by - Brit Hume)

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)

For evil news rides post, while good news baits. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs. (Quote by - Kamal Ahmed)

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. (Quote by - Nicholas D. Kristof)

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. (Quote by - Curt Weldon)

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more. (Quote by - R. Lee Ermey)

He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? (Quote by - John Milton)

I just feel sorry for the people who only get their news from us because they're missing half the joke. Yes, we do a joke on what the news is, but the other half is on how the news is reported. So, if they watch the nightly news or cable news program, they'll enjoy our show more. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience. (Quote by - Kurt Loder)

Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. (Quote by - Bob Schaffer)

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news. (Quote by - Aaron Brown)

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment. (Quote by - Vince McMahon)

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. (Quote by - Matt Drudge)

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances. (Quote by - Ryan White)

We cannot make good news out of bad practice. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)

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. (Quote by - Mary Hart)

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. (Quote by - Ted Nelson)

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news. (Quote by - Martina Hingis)

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. (Quote by - Kurt Loder)

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be. (Quote by - Connie Chung)

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news. (Quote by - Kurt Loder)

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)

That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours. (Quote by - Katie Couric)

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? (Quote by - Tom Clancy)

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills. (Quote by - Benoit Mandelbrot)

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. (Quote by - Kurt Loder)

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I. (Quote by - Roone Arledge)

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it. (Quote by - Larry Speakes)

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out. (Quote by - James Daly)

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money. (Quote by - Neil Cavuto)

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face. (Quote by - Paul Weyrich)

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. (Quote by - Roone Arledge)

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show. (Quote by - Joe Klein)

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. (Quote by - Ethel Waters)

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. (Quote by - Mark E. Hyman)

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.' (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. (Quote by - Bill O'Reilly)

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. (Quote by - Aaron McGruder)

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings. (Quote by - Reese Schonfeld)

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. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson)

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. (Quote by - Martin Feldstein)

You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting. (Quote by - Wolf Blitzer)

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. (Quote by - Jack Adams)

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles. (Quote by - Matt Drudge)

No news is good news. (Quote by - Ludovic Halevy)

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar, In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. (Quote by - Sophocles)

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person. (Quote by - Julian Bond)

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? (Quote by - Matt Drudge)

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. (Quote by - Jerry Seinfeld)

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind. (Quote by - Sam Donaldson)

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news. (Quote by - Christiane Amanpour)

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. (Quote by - Gwen Ifill)

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television. (Quote by - Mary Hart)

The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year. (Quote by - Mary Hart)

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs. (Quote by - Geoffrey Beene)

Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)

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. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news. (Quote by - Matt Drudge)

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. (Quote by - Esther Williams)

What, what, what, What's the news from Sway? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable; led Through the Indian Ocean's bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Med- (Quote by - George Thomas Lanigan)

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story. (Quote by - Daisy Berkowitz)

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in. (Quote by - Tabitha Soren)

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news. (Quote by - John Mellencamp)

I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now. (Quote by - Chris Matthews)

Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good Walks on crutches. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)

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. (Quote by - John Hurt)

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost. (Quote by - Javier Bardem)

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill. (Quote by - Aeschylus)

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel. (Quote by - David Letterman)

I'm very wary of news on television. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic. (Quote by - Tabitha Soren)

How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time. (Quote by - Thomas Perry)

Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. (Quote by - David Brinkley)

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news. (Quote by - Michael K. Simpson)

Stay a little and news will find you. (Quote by - George Herbert)

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people. (Quote by - Tabitha Soren)

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

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. (Quote by - Peter Jennings)

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer. (Quote by - Paul Weyrich)

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. (Quote by - Roone Arledge)

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it. (Quote by - Larry King)

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played. (Quote by - Willie Stargell)

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. (Quote by - Jimmy Breslin)

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news. (Quote by - Brit Hume)

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. (Quote by - Dave Barry)

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't. (Quote by - Diane Sawyer)

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

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. (Quote by - Ryszard Kapuscinski)

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. (Quote by - William Hurt)

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers. (Quote by - Magic Johnson)

News.. communicating news and ideas, I guess.. is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read and alternative television channels. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

Nothing in fine print is ever good news. (Quote by - Andy Rooney)

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. (Quote by - Matt Drudge)

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed. (Quote by - Barbara Kruger)

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media. (Quote by - Vince McMahon)

To the old, the new is usually bad news. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter. (Quote by - Wolf Blitzer)

Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears; And now, to add more measure to your woes, I come to tell you things sith then befallen. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this. (Quote by - Nicholas Sparks)

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours. (Quote by - David Letterman)

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market. (Quote by - Randy Neugebauer)

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it. (Quote by - Jim Lehrer)

News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell, A lady by me her compliments sends; And this is the news from Hell! (Quote by - Lord Lytton)

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. (Quote by - Maria Bartiromo)

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. (Quote by - Matthew Modine)

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You. (Quote by - Ian Hislop)

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. (Quote by - Arthur Christiansen)

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news. (Quote by - Jeff Bridges)

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die. (Quote by - Alex Chiu)

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. (Quote by - John Dryden)

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. (Quote by - Robert B. Parker)

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. (Quote by - Annie Besant)

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue. (Quote by - Liz Phair)

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean? (Quote by - Roone Arledge)

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

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. (Quote by - Kamal Ahmed)

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (Quote by - Bible)

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way. (Quote by - Wolf Blitzer)

We're completely overjoyed by the news. In fact, there's a good possibility that we'll have a Christmas baby. (Quote by - Charlie Haas)

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! (Quote by - Anne Frank)

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper)

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. (Quote by - John Shadegg)

My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered, And then all this thou seest is but a clod And module of confounded royalty. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete. (Quote by - Patricia Clarkson)

Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras. (Quote by - Mark Kennedy)

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper)

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. (Quote by - Peter McWilliams)

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone. (Quote by - Bernard Goldberg)

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change. (Quote by - Sanford I. Weill)

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat? (Quote by - Edward Lear)

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. (Quote by - Jimmy Breslin)

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. (Quote by - Kurt Loder)

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous. (Quote by - Tom Brokaw)

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. (Quote by - A. J. Liebling)

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)

Pistol: And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price. (Falstaff:) I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like. (Quote by - Pete du Pont)

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Rememb'red tolling a departing friend. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it. (Quote by - Cliff Richard)

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. (Quote by - Walter Cronkite)

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. (Quote by - Carlisle Floyd)

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. (Quote by - Wilfred Owen)

Men still control the news, both on and off camera. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. (Quote by - Colin Powell)

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough. (Quote by - Matt Drudge)

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. (Quote by - Charlie Sheen)

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. (Quote by - Umberto Guidoni)

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated. (Quote by - Aaron Sorkin)

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. (Quote by - Corrine Brown)

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world? (Quote by - Sandra Bernhard)

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. (Quote by - Michael Korda)

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. (Quote by - Stephen Collins)

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. (Quote by - Voltaire)

You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values. (Quote by - Wolf Blitzer)

There's villainous news abroad. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems. (Quote by - Warren Christopher)

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information. (Quote by - Ted Rall)

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me. (Quote by - Kevin Nealon)

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show. (Quote by - Samantha Bee)

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)

Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. (Quote by - Friedrich Durrenmatt)

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. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons! (Quote by - Christine Lahti)

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. To me, there is value in bearing witness to what is happening to people who are living their lives with great dignity in the face of horror. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper)

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper)

Literature is news that stays news. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent. (Quote by - Christiane Amanpour)

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. (Quote by - Lord Northcliffe)

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch. (Quote by - Aaron Brown)

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. (Quote by - Harry Johnston)

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. (Quote by - Robert Teeter)

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. (Quote by - Margot Kidder)

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. (Quote by - Robert McChesney)

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated. (Quote by - Brit Hume)

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. (Quote by - Tom Brokaw)

O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film. (Quote by - Donald Pleasence)

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. (Quote by - Joan Blades)