Quotes About News

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians

Pierce is referring to the collapse of collective narrative, which is what we are experiencing as a culture: left and right relying on their own news sources, Raw Story and the Daily Caller, MSNBC and Fox News. Not only that, but even the factions are factionalized, and have been since at least the 1960s. Purity, the rabid fervor of the true believer (the same for all extremists, left and right), versus pragmatism, competence.

roles in True Romance and Crimson Tide—is a young, pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini. Glory, Marshall Herskowitz, 1989. Broadcast News, James L. Brooks, 1986.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.