“At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.” PeopleTryingStoriesFoundInterestingAudienceGroupsNewsAll ThingsMtv Author:Tabitha Soren
“At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.” SometimesStoriesAbleInterestingNiceColorPersonalityNewsVery NiceMtvSpecificityNews Stories Author:Tabitha Soren
“[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.” LanguageInterestingNewsBoardsFifteenMulticulturalBlandAdvisorsNews Channels Book:Axis Source: Axis
“The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to.” TryingMightCausesSportsInterestingExistenceGrowingMediaWeaponsNewsCatPressurePressesEnvironmentalReportsCatastropheSaladWhirlwindGagsCaesar Salad Author:Charlie Brooker
“... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.” PeopleWorldWritingGovernmentInterestingCompanyOne ThingNewsTowns Author:Sally Quinn
“Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.” IfsEnoughPoliticalNextInterestingThousandNewsMinistersDozenReportersNext DayHeadlinesBloggersBriefingBingo Author:Daniel Hannan
“With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.” IfsYearsWellsIdeasStoriesMightThreeInterestingOfficeNewsHollywoodBoxesYesterdayFulfilledThree TimesBox Office Author:David Gordon Green
“Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.” BookDifferentFoundNamesInterestingNewsPhonesListsHotelDifferent Place Author:Cassandra Clare
“For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.” ThinkingKnowsSeemsInterestingNewsHumorousExcitingObjectivesHopefullyFakeSubjectiveCatchingNuggetsCatching On Author:Jon Stewart
“Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.” LooksSometimesStoriesTurnsLinesInterestingNewsOne LineNews Stories Author:Joshuah Bearman
“It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.” TryingMomentsShowsForceCausesInterestingRight NowNewsHappeningsPolicePolice ForceFerguson Author:Ethan Hawke
“News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.” PeopleIfsStillsTermInterestingFictionDesignNewsMake Sense Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I think people are attracted to The Huffington Post's blend of up-to-the-second news and thoughtful opinion, delivered with an attitude. Plus, I think they enjoy that we cover so many different things - from politics and entertainment to style and satire. There is always something interesting to read and think about - and even to laugh at.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEnjoyInterestingAttitudeOpinionLaughingStyleNewsEntertainmentPostsThoughtfulDifferent ThingsSatirePlusSomething Interesting Author:Arianna Huffington
“When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.” ImportantHardHappensInterestingNewsWoodsLos AngelesCoveringUnimportant Author:Charles Kuralt
“To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.” IfsLittlesLongTwoWholeStuffInterestingCompanyWatchesEconomyInformationParticularNewsPicksUselessGuidanceWadeSome InterestingUseful InformationUseless Stuff Author:James Surowiecki
“And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.” WorldShouldLongTwoNaturalInterestingSunHavensThousandNewsScientistStructurePhotographFishesDetailsMilesGiantsReportsJournalConvincingMost InterestingOrbitJupiterThousand MilesWorld News Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time