“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”
“The good news and the bad news are the same: No one cares!”
“I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.”
“Satisfying news hunger no longer involves a twice daily diet of a morning newspaper and evening TV news bulletin: news comes in snack-form”
“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of them broke the news to us.”
“a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.”