Quotes About News

The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into—what else?—another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

The new focus on the image undermined traditional definitions of information, of news, and, to a large extent, of reality itself.

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. This fact is the principal legacy of the telegraph: By generating an abundance of irrelevant information, it dramatically altered what may be called the "information-action ratio.

M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

Je pense à vous, chère mère et cher père. Avez-vous appris la nouvelle par téléphone? La police est-elle venue vous prévenir au salon de barbier? Je dois éviter de telles réflexions ; sinon, je risque de ne jamais reprendre mon souffle. - Boo

it was harder than others to remember that evil was still front page news. Goodness and order were so much the norm they needn't be reported.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

The news did not trouble her particularly; all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it. What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

The Hythe Gazette had reported the story as early as 6 September: 'All idea of invasion is now at an end.

This was dreadful news for the British. It meant that the long Spanish coastline was now enemy territory.

The news could hardly have been worse. The fall of Ulm was a disaster of epic proportions

The letter reached London late on the night of 7 January 1805, the same day as news of Spain's formal declaration of war.

False news spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."31

How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.

A constant flow of news invades existence today, destroying the silence and peace of humble lives, without abolishing their tedium.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

this famous battle Rothschild had an agent who, as soon as victory was certain, set off for London and informed Rothschild. Rothschild started buying every British government share he could before anyone else heard the news. When they did, of course, the shares rocketed and Rothschild sold at a huge profit.

David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.

He was a sorting machine, boxing the news by category and priority, forwarding tips to various departments.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.

My love of writing is an outgrowth of my love of reading. Both helped me to escape boredom, to perform thought experiments, and to deal with the daily news. I can create a world that makes more sense than this one.