535 Quotes About News

Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else

daily bombardment of idiocy

It is bad, the news. Bad news as it always was, forever, but worse. More relevant. This is what you don't want, we realize. What no one ever wanted: for the news to be relevant.

I am a reporter, a leech, a merchant of misery. Bad things are good for us reporters. We are body collectors of sorts.

Without the balancing setting of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

The headlines screamed at him as soon as he saw the paper. He almost screamed back.

Lauriano: – Ehi! … Nonnetto!Nonnetto: – Che c’è, non le piacciono le notizie? … Ne ho degli altri…Lauriano: – Non è quello, solo che è un giornale del 1912! … Io pensavo che vendesse i giornali di oggi! … Guardi qui … 1910, 1910, 1911 … Questo è del 1912! Nonnetto: – Io vendo solo giornali vecchi… … Perché in quelli… … Non si parla della guerra!

The news displays a map of Grant Park on a massive touch-screen television in what has become a commonplace of modern newscasting: someone on television communicating via another television, standing in front of the television and controlling the screen by pinching it with his hands and zooming in and out in super-high definition. It all looks really cool.

But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.