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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.

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

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.‘

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

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

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

The press is the enemy.

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.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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

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

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

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.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

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.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I don’t follow politics much.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

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

We’re news junkies in my house.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

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.

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