Bernard Goldberg Quotes

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

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

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

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

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

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.

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

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.

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

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.

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.

I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.

All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

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

I'm so impressed with the quality of the 'Evening News.'

Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.