Words matter. These are the best Television News Quotes from famous people such as James Taylor, Nicholas Kristof, Robert McChesney, Mariette Hartley, Jessica Savitch, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
The news media’s silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
I really don’t know how women in television news do the job. It’s a very male-oriented business.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
I’ve been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I’m 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
I wasn’t prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the world of music, where I spent my formative years, we were judged solely on our talent, and gender wasn’t a factor.
Philadelphia is a great market for local TV news. Both KYW and Channel 10 have had good runs. But Channel 6 doesn’t give you a reason to turn the channel. I have such profound respect for Jim Gardner. He is Philadelphia television news.
In an ideal world, judges are not supposed to read or be influenced by media reports. But it is difficult to ignore television news which does not distinguish between reportage and comment.
I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner – On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I’m aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
We don’t have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It’s very disturbing to me that we’ve sort of been pushed to the corners.
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.
In 1967, my mother – then Francie Weinman – graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
