News Quotes - Page 25

More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.

One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

A master passion is the love of news.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.