Television News Quotes - Page 1

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Jessica Savitch / Television Personality
Balance
Delicate
News
Public Good
Serving
Television
Television News
Delicate Balance
Gain
Copy Quote
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace /
Envy
Television News
Great Look People
Cable
Networks
Copy Quote
I really don't know how women in television news do the job. It's a very male-oriented business.
Mariette Hartley / Actress
Television News
Copy Quote
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch / Television Personality
Managers
News
Substance
Television
Television News
Grasp
Slow
Copy Quote
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
Joel Siegel / Film Critic
Expanding
News
Producers
Television News
Fill
Hour
Space And Time
Copy Quote
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
Sydney Biddle Barrows / Writer
Experience
War
Experts
Television News
Copy Quote
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Jessica Savitch / Television Personality
Belief
News
Television
Television News
Wrinkles
Widespread
Latest
Wrinkle
Copy Quote
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
Phil Donahue / Film Writer
Corporate
Creating
Ideas
News
Television News
Thinking
Beholden
Corporate Interests
Interests
Nirvana
Copy Quote
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Ideas
Needs
News
People
Television
Television News
Whole
Idea
Inform
People Television Know
Copy Quote
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
James Taylor / Singer-Songwriter
Entertainment
Interest
News
People
Special
Stories
Television
Television News
People Entertainment Television
By The People
Special Interest
Copy Quote
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jimmy Breslin / Journalist
News
Public Interest
Television
Television News
Ties
Chain
Eludes
Fought
Hamburger
Stands
Copy Quote
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
Janet Evanovich / Writer
Ideas
Real
Real Life
Television News
Turns
Writing
Mixed
Copy Quote
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
Robert Mcchesney /
Journalism
News
Print
Radio
Television News
Appalling
Local
Copy Quote
I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.
Zoey Tur /
Television News
Love Always New
Breaking
Next Thing
Overnight
Copy Quote
I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
Lynne Reid Banks / Author
Changed
Female
News
Reporters
Television
Television News
Life Remember My Life
Copy Quote
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
Campbell Brown /
Biting
Objectivity
Retired
Television News
Tongue
Small Children
Copy Quote
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
Hodding Carter /
Darkness
Flash
Lightning
Loud
News
Noise
Television
Television News
Then
Around
Else
Everything Else
Leaves
Makes
Suddenly
Copy Quote
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Nicholas Kristof /
Continuing
Darfur
Silence
Television News
Michael
Jackson
Reprehensible
Copy Quote
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
Ira Glass / Radio Personality
Corny
Media
News
Seems
Television
Television News
Traditional
Aware
Broadcast
Watch
Journalists
Present
Skilled
Copy Quote
I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the world of music, where I spent my formative years, we were judged solely on our talent, and gender wasn't a factor.
Gretchen Carlson / Television Host
Judged
Television News
Encountered
Factor
Formative
Solely
Copy Quote
We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
Carlisle Floyd / Opera Composer
Access
Corners
Disturbing
Magazines
News
Television News
Time Me News
Forum
Copy Quote
I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.
Paul Cellucci / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
News
Television News
Several
Copy Quote
You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Filmmaking
General Public
Order
People
Technique
Television News
Network
Network Television
Simpler
Techniques
Tighter
Understandable
Copy Quote
I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Intrigued
Logos
Television News
Watched
Burn
Corner
Right Hand
Upper
Copy Quote
Philadelphia is a great market for local TV news. Both KYW and Channel 10 have had good runs. But Channel 6 doesn't give you a reason to turn the channel. I have such profound respect for Jim Gardner. He is Philadelphia television news.
Steve Capus /
Philadelphia
Profound
Television News
Tv News
Channel
Jim
Runs
Copy Quote
You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
Connie Chung / Journalist
Magazines
Parity
Print
Radio
Television
Television News
Area
Networks
None
Operation
Reached
Copy Quote
I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.
George Noory / Radio Host
Advantage
Grass
Roots
Television News
Studied
Nearly
Wars
Grass Roots
Local
Reported
Copy Quote
My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.
John Dickerson /
Businessman
Female
Mother
Nancy
Nbc
News
Officials
Stars
Successful
Television
Television News
Attracted
Cabinet
Cbs
Star
Reporter
Movie Stars
Parties
Presidents
Copy Quote
In 1967, my mother - then Francie Weinman - graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.
Dana Bash / Journalist
Hometown
Northwestern
Prestigious
Secretary
Television News
Graduated
Copy Quote
I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Corporate
Independent
Magazines
New York Times
Newspapers
Operations
Papers
Rolling
Television News
Programs
Quite A Bit
Regional
Reporting
Rolling Stone
Stone
Underground
Copy Quote

Top Authors

George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
John F. Kennedy
35Th U.s. President
Tuesday, May 29, 1917
Friday, Nov 22, 1963
Donald Trump
45Th President Of The United States
Friday, Jun 14, 1946
Voltaire
Writer
Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
Saturday, May 30, 1778
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
John Lewis
U.s. Representative
Wednesday, Feb 21, 1940
John Muir
Author
Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
Thursday, Dec 24, 1914
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
Thursday, Oct 06, 1892
Epictetus
Philosopher
William Blake
Poet
Monday, Nov 28, 1757
Sunday, Aug 12, 1827
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Sunday, Sep 12, 1880
Sunday, Jan 29, 1956
Oprah Winfrey
Media Proprietor
Friday, Jan 29, 1954
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
Wednesday, May 05, 1813
Sunday, Nov 11, 1855
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Thursday, Jul 30, 1863
Monday, Apr 07, 1947

View All Authors

Television News Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page