535 Quotes About News

Sometimes it's not news; it's just too much information.

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.

Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later on, as the Common-sense Movement grew, he had to think a lot about that. He had to spread a new system of ideas throughout the world, and journalism would neither instruct nor inform nor lend itself consistently to any sustained propaganda.

The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome.

Keep your past in your past for your future, yours truly North East West South

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

Good news equals good day

People spend their time so focused on the negativity they become negative.

To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.