David Muir Quotes

The phone's never far away. The TV's always on. We are constantly on the news cycle; either watching the news, making the news, talking about the news.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

We try and slow down the news.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

I'm a pretty big news junkie.

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

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

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 news junkie.

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

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.

I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

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.

I am a news junkie and I can't remember a time when I haven't read a paper or even when I am abroad, watched the news on a TV or your phone.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.