Breaking News Quotes

I talk about things that are front page news.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

I don't like when people talk about the news. I think it's boring.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

Everything isn't breaking news. You can't go to DEFCON One just because Sanjay Gupta found a new moisturizer.

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

When people think about CNN today, they think about our television coverage, politics, and Donald Trump. And I get it; I'm not suggesting that's wrong. But I think there is a much bigger story going on at CNN.

There are always issues on the front page that need to be explored.

News is the best drama on television because it's real.

Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

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

I invested in the 'Globe' because it is one of the best and most important news organizations in the world. We saw this vividly in the days and weeks after the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, and we also see it in many other ways every day.

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.

I watch a ton of CNN.

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.

Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

Chaos is good for CNN.

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

When I got the job with Fox, I said 'God, are you sure?' I know nothing about politics; I've been covering car accidents and street closures and the pothole patrol in my hometown.

In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.