Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

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.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.

I'm energetic and passionate about the needs - the things we need to fix. I don't feel old, I don't feel like yesterday's news.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

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.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

I have enjoyed anchoring at 'Headline News' but have decided that it is time for me to make a change in my daily professional life.

One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

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.

After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

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.

When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, 'Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.'

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