Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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.
I think journalism is important.
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.
I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.