52 News Quotes

In our rapidly evolving world, staying informed is more important than ever. News quotes have a unique way of capturing the essence of pivotal moments, offering insights that resonate far beyond the headlines. We've compiled a curated collection of the top 52 news quotes that not only chronicle significant events but also provide a profound reflection on the human experience. These quotes will take you on a journey through history, current affairs, and memorable soundbites that have shaped the way we understand our world today. Dive in and let these powerful words from journalists, public figures, and influential voices inspire and inform you.

1. “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]” - John F. Kennedy

2. “I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ” - Dave Barry

3. “Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. ” - Edward Said

4. “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” - Arthur Miller

5. “Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.” - Edward R. Murrow

6. “We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.” - Edward R. Murrow

7. “When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.” - Christopher Hitchens

8. “The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.” - Arthur C. Clarke

9. “. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.” - Arthur C. Clarke

10. “Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage."Listening to the news! Again?""Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.” - J.K. Rowling

11. “But if we define the Megaphone as the composite of the hundreds of voices we hear each day that come to us from people we don't know, via high-tech sources, it's clear that a significant and ascendant component of that voice has become bottom-dwelling, shrill, incurious, ranting, and agenda-driven. It strives to antagonize us, make us feel anxious, ineffective, and alone; convince us that the world is full of enemies and of people stupider and less agreeable than ourselves; is dedicated to the idea that, outside the sphere of our immediate experience, the world works in a different, more hostile, less knowable manner. This braindead tendency is viral and manifests intermittently; while it is the blood in the veins of some of our media figures, it flickers on and off in others.” - George Saunders

12. “If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.” - Wes Nisker

13. “Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.” - Max Brooks

14. “You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.” - Bruce Sterling

15. “Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink” - Judy Polumbaum

16. “Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has eroded. -Jin Yongquan ” - Judy Polumbaum

17. “I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a great deal. However, facing a very complex thing, you should find out its essence. -Jin Yongquan” - Judy Polumbaum

18. “Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.” - Eula Biss

19. “The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” - Edward R. Murrow

20. “Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard—the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.” - Sue Miller

21. “This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.” - Walter Kirn

22. “Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new information, but you feel like you're watching something dramatic.” - Jim Geraghty

23. “Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.” - Emlyn Williams

24. “News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.” - Charles Bukowski

25. “My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury” - Rodney Barnes

26. “There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.” - Abe Kōbō

27. “He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.” - Robert Cormier

28. “كل يوم أكتشف في وطني مجداً جديداًوعاراً جديداًأخباراً ترفع الرأسوأخرى ترفع الضغط” - محمد الماغوط

29. “I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.” - John Twelve Hawks

30. “News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.” - Toba Beta

31. “News is only the first rough draft of history.” - Alan Barth

32. “The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.” - Santosh Kalwar

33. “The greatest influence over content was necessity--they had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words, provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.” - Tom Rachman

34. “I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.” - Siriworn Kaewkan

35. “Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.” - Haruki Murakami

36. “People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing,Except death that is, and even on that they disagree.Some say the soul goes on after the death of the bodyWhile others claim the soul, with the body, dies too.” - Mutannabi

37. “All of the strife in this world is due to three people: a newscaster, a news seeker, and a news listener.” - Ibn al-Qasim al-Hakim

38. “In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.” - Criss Jami

39. “The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.” - Joss Whedon

40. “I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.” - Lev Grossman

41. “BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!” - Steve Maraboli

42. “I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.” - Edmund Wilson

43. “When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.” - Stieg Larsson

44. “Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.” - Criss Jami

45. “That could be a very sexy story.” - LynDee Walker

46. “All new news is old news happening to new people” - Malcolm Muggeridge

47. “(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the current political economic system. It is, of course, largely subliminal, not carefully worked out, and lacks a coherent vision for what needs to be done -- but there can be little doubt that this shift has happened, and is deepening. People are increasingly disenchanted, and they are hungry for alternatives.” - Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013

48. “Life goes on in the same manner,evil wins and peace is slaughtered.Change the channel, change the view,tired of the same reruns on the evening news.” - Susie Clevenger

49. “If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

50. “People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.” - Dennis E. Adonis

51. “Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.” - Dean Koontz

52. “Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings” - Amit Abraham