News Broadcasting Quotes

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

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

I watch Channel 4 News every day. I love it. I rarely watch any other news programme. There's just something about it - and I'm not talking about Jon Snow's ties and socks, but I appreciate those, too.

I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

I watch a ton of CNN.

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

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.

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

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.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.

This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'