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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

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The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you...

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When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis...

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I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, ...

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You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! Th...

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They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a w...

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Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down...

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Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope ...

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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

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Alain de BottonThe News: A User's Manual

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-...

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A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness...

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To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly remin...

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News is only the first rough draft of history.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and tr...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we...

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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news sh...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, the...

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What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain ex...

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C. J. CherryhDownbelow Station

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the u...

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When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a sing...

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I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news p...

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U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation...

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From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to k...

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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in...

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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be...

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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distr...

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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable...

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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect...

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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media p...

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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...

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All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...

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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

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Guy de MaupassantOriginal Maupassant Short Stories

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later...

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Things were rather larger, more obvious and rougher on the American side, but the issues were essent...

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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows ar...

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Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too m...

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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women o...

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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and w...

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Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under ou...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

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The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...

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All new news is old news happening to new people

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morn...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,...

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The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the event...

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Pope John Paul IIllustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but ...

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A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the...

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Ray KurzweilHow to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...

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What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about bein...

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People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes,...

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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do...

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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the ...

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