Dave Barry Quotes

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.

The media loves negative spin.

Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

I'm not encouraging massive boycotts of turning off the news. That's what the left does. I'm just telling you my own personal experience. I'm just in a much better mood. I'm in a good mood anyway, but I'm in a much better mood day in and out. I look at things entirely differently not watching that crap. It's all I'm telling you.

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.

If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the 'Huffington Post' went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?

I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.

I get weepy even watching the news.