News Importance Quotes

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 want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

The news is best when it's serious.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

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

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.