Julian Assange Quotes

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

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.

I talk about things that are front page news.

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.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

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

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.

I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.

It's the media who love statistics.

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

News is history shot on the wing.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

When people think about CNN today, they think about our television coverage, politics, and Donald Trump. And I get it; I'm not suggesting that's wrong. But I think there is a much bigger story going on at CNN.

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.