Real-Time News Quotes

One of the things that Flipboard is great at is certainly looking at the news in a realtime format, which a lot of the personal news aggregators don't really focus on, so you can see things right up to the minute.

In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.

We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

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

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 don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

When I need quick info, Twitter tells me.

There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.