Michael Che Quotes

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I'm a pretty big news junkie.

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

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.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

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

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

I'm a news junkie.

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

Washington is a one issue city ... whatever dominates the headlines.

There are always issues on the front page that need to be explored.