Serious News Quotes

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

The real news is bad news.

The news is best when it's serious.

Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.

Everyone told me, "Don't ever talk about international stuff," and "Don't do long-form content online," and "Don't get too serious in news," and "Don't be too heavy" - all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff.

The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.