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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. -- Jessica Savitch
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. -- Jessica Savitch
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news. -- Jessica Savitch
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana. -- Phil Donahue
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them. -- James Taylor
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. -- Ted Turner
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
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
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
There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism. -- Nora Ephron
Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news. -- Stephen Colbert
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired. -- Sydney Biddle Barrows
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
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
Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 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
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
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
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
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
Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. -- Chris Wallace
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time. -- Joel Siegel
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. -- Jimmy Breslin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television. -- Lowell Bergman
I'm very wary of news on television. -- Val Kilmer
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy. -- Richard M. Nixon
News is the best drama on television because it's real. -- Deborah Turness
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. -- Kurt Loder
I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news. -- Justin Theroux
I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it. -- Larry Hagman
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. -- Matt Drudge
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates. -- Reed Hundt
Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family. -- Gordon Smith
Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen. -- Keith Olbermann
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. -- David Brinkley
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. -- James Reston
The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly. -- Tucker Carlson
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television. -- Val Kilmer
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. -- Kurt Loder
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world. -- Robert MacNeil
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
There are so many (negative) things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing. -- Kevin Sorbo
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
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
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. -- Sydney Schanberg
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did. -- Ted Turner
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
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
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
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. -- Robert Teeter
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
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
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
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
The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially. -- Jason Calacanis
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. -- Dee Dee Myers

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