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. – Roone Arledge
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. – Peter Ackroyd
Reporters do decide what is news, but they don’t invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC’s Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt. – Rachel Sklar
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants. – Rick Bragg
I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in ‘Pinocchio.’ – Park Shin-hye
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news. – Richard Dawkins
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. – Ogden Nash
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
I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don’t. I don’t learn anything from it anymore. – Rush Limbaugh
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed. – Olivia Newton-John
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker’s garage. – Robert Reich
I have never worried about ‘Frontline’ becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were. – Raney Aronson-Rath
What NPR did, I’m very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news. – Ron Schiller
I’ve actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, ‘The Chinese Guy from ‘Fast & Furious’ Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.’ – Sung Kang
When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don’t need any reporter telling us how badly we played. – Willie Stargell
On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse. – Samantha Power
What we call ‘the news’ always has tried to tell a story, and it’s always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling. – Steve Erickson