Jill Lepore Quotes

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

I watch a ton of CNN.

The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.

I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

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.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.