Better off Quote by Evan Williams

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

— Peter Hitchens

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

— Nate Silver

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

— Val Kilmer

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

— John Hockenberry

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's…

— Stacey Dooley

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive…

— Susan Orlean

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

— Phil Donahue

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

— Rutger Bregman

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

— Susan Rice

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

— Bill Moyers

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper.

— Anonymous