It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

I’m mainstream.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

I make pop culture.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I don’t follow politics much.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

The world is too violent right now.

The press is the enemy.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Everybody is entertained to death.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

We’re news junkies in my house.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I live in a crazy time.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.