Anderson Cooper Quotes

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

Yahoo! has clearly established itself as the go-to destination for big events and breaking news, and we are focused on providing the best digital canvas for the world's greatest storytellers to create, develop and showcase their visions.

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

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.

With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

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

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

I have broken a lot of stories.

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.

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

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

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out for the rest of us.

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