Cable News Quotes:

The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

- Ali Velshi

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Real, Struggle, People, Cable News, Fast Paced

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Anchors, Looks, News, Cable News

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.

- Brit Hume

topic: Thinking, People, News, Cable News, News Channels

The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number One newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, also has a right-wing editorial slant (and is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News). The Number One talk radio show is Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity is Number Two, and Glenn Beck is Number Three. When you control all the largest media outlets, it’s time to stop grousing about liberal media bias.

- Paul Begala

topic: Wall, Media, Hands, Media Bias, Liberal Media

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

- David Frum

topic: People, Political, Watches, Cable News

I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Suicidal, Night, Thinking, Cable News

If you're watching cable news, you are going to get a distorted picture.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: News, Cables, Ifs, Cable News

I think it's fair to point out that there is bias in the media on both sides, both right and left. And that it's very hard to find objective news because we have gotten, particularly as you watch cable news, it's so dominated by opinion.

- Rand Paul

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Media, Sides, Cable News

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.

- Rachel Maddow

source: "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

topic: Stupid, Media, Issues, Mainstream Media, Knee Jerk Reactions

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

topic: Believe, Hard Work, News, Cable News, Explaining Things

Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn'€t understand Fox'€s appeal.

- Jonathan S. Tobin

source: "Faltering WH Still Blaming the Messenger" by Jonathan Tobin, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 6, 2014.

topic: Opportunity, President, Records, Cable News, Northwestern

Just before I began doing this show [The Last Word ], a dear friend of mine, Karen Russell, asked me what I was going to do with the show.She meant how was I going to use this platform to do something important, something that I wouldn`t be able to do without an hour of real estate in cable news prime time.The K.I.N.D. fund is my answer to Karen Russell`s question, what are you going to do with this show?

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Real, Important, News, Cable News, Prime Time

Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.

- James Bobin

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Old School, Character, Oil, Cable News

People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.

- Henry Blodget

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Sunday Night, Cable News, Thursday Night

The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.

- Guy P. Harrison

topic: Dark, Goal, Soul, Informed Citizens, Cable News

In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.

- Jamie Glazov

topic: Fashion, New York, Wall, Moral Indignation, Cable News

I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.

- Meghan McCain

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Grateful, Long, People, Cable News

Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process.

- Geoff Davis

source: "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

topic: People, Cost, News, Cable News

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

- Kal Penn

topic: News, Done, Down And, Cable News, Cables

It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Political, News, Narrative, Cable News

... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

- Andrea Mitchell

source: Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.120, Penguin

topic: People, Grace, News, Cable News, Unforgiving

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

- Jann Wenner

source: "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

topic: Photography, Long, Design, Cable News

Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.

- Trevor Noah

topic: Views, Groups, News, Cable News

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

- Scott Pelley

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: People, Watches, News, Cable News

Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

- Tina Fey

topic: Tuesday, Adults, News, Cable News, Cable Tv

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

- Gregg Easterbrook

topic: People, Today, News, Cable News, Coverage

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Objectivity, Essence, Promise, Cable News, Cables

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

- Jerry Springer

topic: Sports, Political, Watches, Cable News, Cables