News Relevance Quotes

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.

If the front-page news is a comedian doing a joke that people think is naughty, that proves there's no real news that day, does it not?

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

If it's called THE USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them, and we've given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.

There is this massive misconception that young people have absolutely no interest in the news. Young people definitely do want to be informed, but they want to be informed by people they can relate to.

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary pages! Whereas everybody looks at the news section.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

One copy of The [London] Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.