The Grass is Greener - Derryn Hinch

I like the William Randolph Hearst line when he says "news is something somebody doesn't want published, all the rest is unpaid advertising".

– Journalist and broadcaster Derryn Hinch on what constitutes "news"

Who tackles the issues others avoid?

– 1991 billboard advertising Derryn Hinch's nightly current affairs show

I've had a pig's head- a real pig's head- sent to me in the mail with the eyes blackened and the face all chopped around...

– Derryn Hinch on some of the extreme feedback he's had in his journalism career

Three, three-thirty that's your crunch time when you have THE conference for the day, the big one...

– Derryn Hinch on producing a nightly current affairs programme

If you guys are right and I am wrong then people will be appalled at what I've done and my ratings will go through the floor...

– Hinch gets combatative in an interview about a controversy involving him

My memory of the lunch was that good wine flowed for hours, and so did the opinions of Hinch. He talked, a lot. He argued and held forth. He had a journalist’s love of anecdote to prove a point and a radio presenter’s self regard. I don’t say that nastily. He was smart company, a big personality intensely interested in current events, who could puff himself up, but just as easily make a joke at his own expense.

– Journalist Gay Alcorn on meeting Aussie media star turned Senator Derryn Hinch, Guardian 16 September 2016