Walter Isaacson Quotes

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it's something I really should start to do.

I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

There is this massive misconception that young people have absolutely no interest in the news. Young people definitely do want to be informed, but they want to be informed by people they can relate to.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

I'm a pretty big news junkie.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

We're news junkies in my house.

I'm a news junkie.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?

You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.