The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.
—Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists
I've never been very good at feasting on the daily newspaper. It turns bitter in my mouth. And yet, this is my world. This face of suffering I must embrace as a part of my responsibility. Part of the feast is becoming aware of the world that is mine. Part of the feast is owning this broken world as my own brokenness.
—Macrina Wiederkehr
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
—Henry David Thoreau
It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
—Jerry Seinfeld
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
—Eugene McCarthy
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
—A. J. Liebling
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
—David Brinkley
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
—Douglas Adams
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
—Gore Vidal
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
—Gloria Borger
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
—Charlie Munger
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.
—William Carlos Williams
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
—Hodding Carter
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
—Henry Fielding