Ted Turner Quotes

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

I used to be a journalist.

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

News is the first rough draft of history.

Newspapers always excite curiosity.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.