Television News Quotes

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Balance, News, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

  James Taylor

  People, Special, News

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

  Lowell Bergman

  Order, People, Technique

  "'The Insider' goes public". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1999.

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• I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Life Changing, Acting, Female

  "TV news in the 50s was more thrilling than The Hour" by Lynne Reid Banks, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2011.

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• The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

  David Brinkley

  Sarcastic, Business, Sarcasm

  "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

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• The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

  Tucker Carlson

  News, Television, Best Things

  Tucker Carlson (2003). “Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  News, Television, Journalism

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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• TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

  Garrison Keillor

  Tv News, Watches, Bottles

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• The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

  Ted Turner

  Ideas, People, Needs

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• One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Never Settle, Television

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

  Stephen Colbert

  Television, Soup, News

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• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  War, Creativity, Media

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.18, New World Library

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• Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Ties, News, Television

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• I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Understanding, Doe

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Television

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Writing, Ideas

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• Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

  Jessica Savitch

  News, Substance, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance." And so they have.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Crazy, Simple, Media

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.3, Three Rivers Press

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• Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.

  Elinor Guggenheimer

  Jobs, Sex, Prejudice

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• After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.

  Dean Koontz

  Mistake, Civilization, Wiping Out

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.335, Bantam

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• If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  War, Experience, Experts

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• The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

  Jessica Savitch

  Wrinkles, News, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

  George Noory

  War, Years, Roots

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• I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

  Phil Donahue

  Thinking, Ideas, Creating

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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