Mark Steyn Quotes

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

If you love television and you love news, CNN is the perfect place to be.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

That's my role, I go get news.

From breaking down the latest headlines on 'FOX News @ Night' to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.

I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

News is history shot on the wing.

I think that my main business is as a news person.

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.