We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking TV News Quotes from Campbell Brown, Dave Barry, Haskell Wexler, Aaron Brown, Brit Hume. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he’s doing for their once sagging ratings.
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
We have a responsibility to show the public the kinds of truths that they don’t see on the TV news or the Hollywood film.
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
I don’t think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers – and I call them customers – of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don’t understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
When it was announced that I was going to be on ‘Castle,’ there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from ‘Firefly’ fans hoping for a nod to the series – some encrypted business just for them! I can’t promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill.
American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.
We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don’t want to look at them.
The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in ‘Run Baby Run’ was really interesting.
I was in sixth grade. I loved TV news. I acknowledge that I was also in awe of Barbara Walters interviewing Patrick Swayze and dancing with him.
I have an Emmy, but it’s no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
TV news dominates politics and is extremely low-bandwidth: it contains a few hundred words and rarely uses graphics properly.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
