“People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.” PeopleThinkingOpinionInformationNewsObjectives Author:Lynn Samuels
“I treat Twitter like a news feed. I follow you guys, I follow every news organization - left, right, center, and everything in between - and it's like a ticker on my phone. For me it's that you have to wade through the people who wish you were dead - and I have to respect their opinions - but it helps me stay on top of the news.” PeopleHelpingGuyLeftWishOpinionNewsOrganizationTreatsPhonesHelp MeWish YouWade Author:Willie Geist
“I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.” PeopleWorldWayOpinionSourceNewsHappeningsAppreciateBest WayObjectivesStaffAppreciate People Author:George W. Bush
“The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.” DifferentEnoughIndividualOpinionNewsCollectivesRemarkableColorfulLegion Author:William Safire
“You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!” EnoughGuyFoundJesusOpinionTeacherCrazyMembersNewsAdultsBiggerMajorityJewMinoritiesShySeniorHomosexualGood NewsPollsSantaSanta ClausNraBeing Shy Author:Bill Maher
“The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.” PowerfulOpinionNewsNewspapersAdvertisingPrintedShowcase Author:Jill Abramson
“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.” YearsHardOpinionNovelPiecesPaperNewsYears AgoSpendingBuyingSundayPapersBetter OffHandful Author:Gerry Adams
“I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.” WayRealStoriesHappensCertainOpinionShapesNewsBeing RealTexture Author:Colum McCann
“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantWould BeSchoolLeftHoursHalfSituationOpinionEconomicEventsTelevisionTaughtOughtNewsPressureRidiculousMediumsEveningJournalPublic SchoolHalf Hours Author:Walter Cronkite
“I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.” TryingSometimesFormOpinionNewsPresses Author:George W. Bush
“I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.” TryingHas BeensEndsNightGoalLinesOpinionWeekInvolvedNewsAvailableAnalysisReportersFridayCoveringFriday Night Author:Gwen Ifill
“We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?” IfsThinkingWantShouldPersonsJobsOpinionEnvironmentNewsDeserveDecidedElectionClintonDemocratAccessDebateJournalistCandidatesCyclesFoxesGreat JobFox NewsBoycott Author:Sean Hannity