Top 100 Quotes About Television News
#1. The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.
Tucker Carlson
#2. You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
Lowell Bergman
#3. 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.
Carlisle Floyd
#4. Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
Joel Siegel
#5. You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
Connie Chung
#6. The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they're all fairy tales, obviously, like the television news; but the obvious is only obvious when it happens to someone else.
Anthony Marra
#7. Philadelphia is a great market for local TV news. Both KYW and Channel 10 have had good runs. But Channel 6 doesn't give you a reason to turn the channel. I have such profound respect for Jim Gardner. He is Philadelphia television news.
Steve Capus
#8. No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.
Mark Leibovich
#9. I started out as a television news anchor but I wasn't very good at it. I think I was too positive. I wanted to begin every newscast by saying, 'Good evening, in the news tonight ... everything's great! Go to sleep. We'll let you know if anything important comes up.'
Bob Burg
#10. One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
Edward R. Murrow
#11. I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
Lynne Reid Banks
#12. Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
James Taylor
#13. Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.
Stephen Colbert
#15. 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.
Hodding Carter
#16. Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch
#17. 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.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#18. David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.
Noah Hawley
#19. The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
Ted Turner
#20. But the television news cameras couldn't get anywhere near the action, so the coverage mostly consisted of journalists interviewing each other about how little they knew.
Neal Stephenson
#21. Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Jessica Savitch
#22. Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jimmy Breslin
#23. In the act of watching the television news, audiences cross the globe, one moment viewing a scene in a wide aerial shot, the next moment seeing an emotional close up of a victim's face. By extending the physical senses to impossible dimensions, media provide audiences a near metaphysical adventure.
James Houran
#24. Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
Robert McChesney
#25. There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.
Nora Ephron
#26. TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle
Garrison Keillor
#27. I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
Dan Gilroy
#28. I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.
George Noory
#29. I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
Phil Donahue
#30. Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
Ira Glass
#31. I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
Janet Evanovich
#32. After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.
Dean Koontz
#33. I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace
#34. The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Jessica Savitch
#35. 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
#36. I don't watch any television, hardly ever because I'm so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that's it.
Lisa Vanderpump
#37. I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
Ted Turner
#38. I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.
Steven Jackson
#39. Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
Matt Drudge
#40. That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
Vince McMahon
#41. Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
Gordon Smith
#42. I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
Jerry Lewis
#43. There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Ian Hislop
#44. With all the risk and danger television sprays at us each day like tear gas, it occurs to me they should simply open each evening's show by saying, "Welcome to the Channel Two News; we're very surprised you made it through another day.
Thom Rutledge
#45. Don't you have a television?" She worked her magic and turned on the news. Not pointing out that one of the remotes he'd been trying to use was her portable phone.
Annie Nicholas
#46. I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.
Justin Theroux
#47. [Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News.
Gore Vidal
#48. And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.
Assata Shakur
#49. I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Ted Turner
#50. The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.
Harold Evans
#51. There are so many (negative) things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.
Kevin Sorbo
#52. An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper ... except that the evangelist's mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.
Billy Graham
#53. Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
Reed Hundt
#54. Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.
Rodney A. Smolla
#55. We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our families, not just to watch the evening news and the inane comedies designed to pacify the multitudes, but rather to explore ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#56. I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
Larry Hagman
#57. 'Fox lies' has become a favorite mantra of the Left, yet there is a reason Fox News blows away the other cable networks in ratings and is more trusted as a news source than any other television network.
Ronald Kessler
#58. I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
Paul Simon
#59. Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
Cameron Mathison
#60. If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.
Josh Elliott
#61. I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you people crazy?" I screamed at the television. "Get out of there. Somebody shoot it!" Then I realized I was watching Special Report and had mistaken Charles Krauthammer for a zombie.
Ian McClellan
#62. Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
Robert MacNeil
#63. The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
Neil Postman
#64. 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
#65. I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines-never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news-trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?
Scarlett Johansson
#66. Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which is to keep the viewers watching so that they will be exposed to the commercials
Neil Postman
#67. I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
Dan Jenkins
#68. 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?
Tom Clancy
#69. The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.
Jonah Peretti
#70. News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.
Steven Magee
#71. We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
Val Kilmer
#72. Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
Brit Hume
#73. 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.
Kurt Loder
#74. For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.
Alex Pareene
#75. I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.
Vladimir Putin
#76. I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
Kurt Loder
#77. We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
Edward R. Murrow
#78. We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
Ray Bradbury
#79. In television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.
Linda Ellerbee
#80. There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
Rush Limbaugh
#81. Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.
Douglas Brinkley
#82. The good news about New Mexico is we bring a lot of movies, a lot of television series out here, so I'm hoping I continue to work out here in New Mexico along with being part of my community.
Steven Michael Quezada
#83. The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
Sydney Schanberg
#84. The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
David Brinkley
#85. Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?
Douglas Adams
#86. If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. Murrow
#87. The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not.
Erich Fromm
#88. 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.
Mary Hart
#89. There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
Frank Rich
#90. Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.
Keith Olbermann
#91. I'm very wary of news on television.
Val Kilmer
#92. You know, I am so sick of cuttin' on my television and everyone on it is obsessed with livin' forever. Well, I have a news flash: Ain't none of us gettin' out of her alive.
Paula H. Deen
#93. Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.
Charles McPhee
#94. News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Val Kilmer
#95. If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
Tabitha Soren
#96. Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
James Reston
#97. I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
Lauren Bacall
#98. Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.
Costa-Gavras
#99. 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
#100. People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.
Henry Blodget
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