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

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

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.