Quotes About News

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

merchantman sunk in the Atlantic, the 500th U.S. ship lost to U-boats since Pearl Harbor. The domestic news was also war-related, if less febrile: the first meatless Tuesday had gone well in New York; penitentiary inmates with only one felony conviction were urged to apply for parole so they could serve in the Army; and a survey of department stores in Washington revealed that "there aren't any nylon stockings to be had for love or money.

According to USA Today, as of mid-2016, Trump had been part of more

Europe's reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war, while most Americans do not. …. It's easier to feel detached when a war is something you watch on the nightly news, rather than something that killed your grandfather or destroyed your hometown.

I was pretty sick for a couple of weeks--too sick for the Mrs. to give me the news. And it's a wonder I didn't

I settled down in the more comfortable of the two chairs to bring myself up to date on how the mother country was getting along without me. Badly was my immediate impression, the main news amply justifying my self-imposed exile.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News ' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.

established foreign correspondents, set up the first Washington bureau, and employed the newly invented telegraph to get the news first from everywhere the lines reached. Now the news-not politics-ranked first in importance. Bennett did not hesitate to be political, but he did it primarily on his editorial page. Six years after the Herald appeared, Horace Greeley started the New York Tribune. Greeley was followed

Six years after the Herald appeared,

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category within the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.'

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

When the newspaper detailed the suicide of a young person, it was young drivers who then piled their cars into trees, poles, and embankments with fatal results; but when the news story concerned an older person's suicide, older drivers died in such crashes. l advised, then, to take special care in our travels at these times.

The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about.

In order to generate high profits and share prices, they have to attract consumers rather than serve citizens. This has transformed journalists from investigators and analysts offering serious news to "content providers" competing for attention.

My mom had been a news junkie since the October Event, watching CNN not for pleasure or even information but mainly to reassure herself, the way a Mexican villager might keep an eye on a nearby volcano, hoping not to see smoke.

March had a routine for reading the paper. He started at the back, with the truth. If Leipzig was said to have beaten Cologne four-nil at football, the chances were it was true: even the Party had yet to devise a means of rewriting the sports results. The sports news was a different matter. COUNTDOWN

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

Then we'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others.

Finally, there was the matter of ensuring that the march would be preserved for posterity: "We should have a photographer to take pictures for use later in the roto sections, to guard against the possibility that the news photographers do not get good pictures for this purpose."16

You saw the news footage," I said. He gave a small nod. "And just like that you flew out?" "You'd do the same for me," he said. I nodded. "Yeah." "What I can't believe is that you didn't call me sooner." I frowned. "Why?" "You have a zombie apocalypse and you don't invite me.

stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast