News Definition Quotes

I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

NEWS is that which comes from North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

What's 'straight news?' I guess a lot of people out there in the general public would probably say the New York Times and Reuters. I just disagree that is straight news.

Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

The media has lost its monopoly. They have lost the opportunity they had to define what's news and what isn't news. They have lost the monopoly on telling people what to think, as in commentary and this kind of thing.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.