David Brinkley Quotes

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

Every time I watch CNN, it feels like you're assigning me homework. Is Trump a Russian spy? I don't know. You tell me - I'm watching the news. It feels like I'm watching CNN watch the news. Just take an hour, figure out what you want to say, then go on the air.

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

We should always remember that Fox News will stick out like a sore thumb no matter what the other news outlets do, and that has to be recognized as an issue.

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.

Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

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.