Quotes About News Channels

#1. I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis.
Election, erection, election, erection!
Either way we're screwed!

Bette Midler

#2. A lot of people take shots at news channels.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#3. Look at the way I look. Guys like me aren't on TV too often. Not on news channels.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#4. What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

Ranbir Kapoor

#5. Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#6. News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#7. 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.

Brit Hume

#8. People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping ... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

Rupert Murdoch

#9. The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to "genuine" objectivity.

Chris Hedges

#10. Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

#11. Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!

DJ QBert

#12. I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

Tony Abbott

#13. Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

Richie Havens

#14. I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.

Ian Millar

#15. Your heart is the roots to God.
Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.
Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.
You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#16. Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

Rachel Sklar

#17. Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

Frank Leahy

#18. For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

Juliet Marillier

#19. We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

Wadah Khanfar

#20. It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

Adam McKay

#21. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

Pema Chodron

#22. I'm not one of these people who are disheartened that the universe is expanding. But as news and data breed and the crowded channels grow ever noisier, I do feel that the space is ever increasing between me and it, whatever it might be.

Rivka Galchen

#23. What's happening, Dad?" "Shut up and row! Get us away from it!" "Is it a monster, Dad?" "It's worse than a monster, son!" shouted Solid, as the oars bit into the water. The thing was quite high now, standing on some kind of tower ... "What is it, Dad! What is it?" "It's a damned weathercock!

Terry Pratchett

#24. On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test cards.

A. Ashley Straker

#25. Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

Robert Crais

#26. I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

Gerry Adams

#27. The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Maybe this was all supposed to happen just like this, because . . . because it was always gonna be you and me.

Jenny Han

#29. 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.

Rupert Murdoch

#30. Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#31. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

Tika Sumpter

#32. All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

H.P. Lovecraft

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

John C. Maxwell

#34. I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God ... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!'

Howard Stringer

#35. The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

Javier Bardem

#36. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

Abhijit Naskar

#37. CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

Alex Pareene