News Interpretation Quotes

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

There's not much opportunity to learn to read the news. By and large, you either can or you can't do it pretty much straight away.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

Every news network within their division has opinion and then has news.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.