Ari Melber Quotes

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

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

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

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

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

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

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.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

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

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

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

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.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

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.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

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.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.