Doe Quote by Susan Orlean

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less…

— Evan Williams

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already…

— Anonymous

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until…

— Helen Thomas

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

— James Taylor

“Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama…

— Lance Morcan

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news.…

— Ari Melber

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough…

— Wolf Blitzer

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

— Nate Silver

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general…

— Ruth Ozeki

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what…

— Herbert Bayard Swope

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

— Phil Donahue