Famous News Quotes - Famous Quotes about News
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
- Arthur Miller
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Henry Fielding
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
- Walter Winchell
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Hello, Americans! This is Paul Harvey! Stand by for news!
- Paul Harvey
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
- Kim Alexis
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If I rescued a child from drowning the Press would no doubt headline the story 'Benn grabs child.'
- Tony Benn
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
- Newt Gingrich
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day just exactly fits in the newspaper.
- Jerry Seinfield
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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
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Nobody should get a story until they produce evidence. No matter how telegenic they are, no matter how many Star Fleet Command uniforms they have, if you don’t show up with a baby or a parent or a DNA test, or some witnesses who are credible, you shouldn’t have a story. -- (commenting on the Clonaid Raelian claims of the first cloned baby)
- Arthur Caplan
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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
- Andy Rooney
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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
- David Brinkley
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer
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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.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker
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Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
- Peter Jennings
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That great, overgrown lummox of a Colonel McCormick, mediocre in ability, less than average in brains and a damn physical coward in spite of his size, sitting in the tower of the Tribune building with his guards protecting him while he squirts sewage at men whom he happens to dislike.
- Harold L. Ickes
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
- David Brinkley
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The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
- David Brinkley
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We're going to put you back in the fashion department. (to a female reporter)
- Fred Grandy
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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
- Charles Anderson Dana
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
- Larry Speakes
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You know what the news is. Now you're going to hear ... the rrrrest of the story!
- Paul Harvey
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