James Bobin Quotes

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

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.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.

ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Chris Wallace is probably the most of an exception because his program, 'Fox News Sunday,' also airs on Fox broadcast stations. So he doesn't feel as many of the same ratings pressures to please the right wing audience versus all the rest of the programs.

The news now continues all night, whether it's politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o'clock at night.

My role at NBC was president of 'NBC News.' I had that role for eight years.

Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.

If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.

Breaking news on live TV is a roller coaster.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.