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Quotes About News

After ten months of no diagnoses or incorrect diagnoses—with her tummy distended as if she were hiding a small balloon under her dress—she finally heard it: "You have stage four ovarian cancer." Gilda grabbed my face in her hands and sobbed, "No more bad news, no more bad news. I don't want any more bad news.
~ Gene Wilder
A high level of chaos would mean that they could expect to meet the Fae, creatures of chaos and magic, who were able to take form and cause disorder on such a corrupted world. And that was never good news
~ Genevieve Cogman
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A master passion is the love of news.
~ George Crabbe
She was too exhausted and downcast to take in the importance of the news- just as a person who has shed so many tears at the bedside of someone who is dying has none left for the actual moment of death.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
At noon, in the noisy dining room where Arlette Corail was finishing lunch, some travellers brought news of the armistice. The women burst into tears. It seemed that the situation was rather confused. In certain places the army was still resisting and civilians had joined them. However, everyone agreed that the army had failed and there was nothing more to be done; they had no choice but to give up. The room was filled with chatter. It was stiflingly hot.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Look Moy, see the chimneys, they've lit all the fires, they must have known we were going to try to drown ourselves. And Anax is running on ahead to bring the news.
~ Iris Murdoch
No doubt the news had spread that a Technician was coming through.
~ Isaac Asimov
No nation had wanted to report the true number of deaths. Only Spain, who had remained neutral in the conflict, shared news of the illness, which is why it ended up being called the Spanish influenza.
~ Isabel Allende
Ninguna nación admitía el número de sus bajas; sólo España, que se mantuvo neutral en el conflicto, difundía noticias sobre la enfermedad y por eso acabaron llamándola «influenza española».
~ Isabel Allende
When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.
~ Soledad O'Brien
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
~ Henry Rollins
I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that is their deal: to lie ahead of time. There is zero news value in that.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
When I was growing up, I had three channels, and I didn't know what happened in the Philippines instantly if it happened. Now you can be on the Internet and find out what's going on in Zimbabwe. It's changed.
~ Edge
Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.
~ Sebastian Junger
My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me.
~ Suzanne Collins
Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
~ Rachel Sklar
I think in terms of being a good presenter, it's not as simple as having been out in a war zone. Actually the news is far broader than that.
~ Mary Nightingale
Literature is news that stays news.
~ Ezra Pound
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
~ John Ciardi
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
~ Ogden Nash
A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.
~ Beryl Pfizer
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.
~ Francis Quarles
A good message will always find a messenger.
~ Amelia Barr