It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.