Charles Lamb Quotes

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

I am interested in the press and what they do.

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

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

News is the first rough draft of history.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

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

Make the paper interesting.

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

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.

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

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

News is history shot on the wing.

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.