Quotes About News

Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.

Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?

Sad to hear news about Michael Weiner, deepest condolences to his loved ones. His sacrifices as head of players union will not be forgotten.

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.

Very sad to hear the news about George Michael. An incredible talent who brought joy to millions of us with his music.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

You should've told me, " she repeats. "Because here's a news flash: You might've wanted to shelter me, but there's nowhere you can hide me that'll keep me safe from what's inside my head.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

La guerra oggi è pace, e la pace è guerra. Le belle e le brutte notizie durano poco, assumono quasi subito un significato ambiguo, perdono chiarezza: e anche se non ci sono guerre o altre calamità, l'industria della paura impedisce che se ne parli in modo non allarmistico. Le belle notizie non fanno più notizia. Le brutte notizie sono, per definizione, le notizie.

Nosotros, mientras tanto, vivimos en una era de miedo, negatividad y malas noticias. Las buenas noticias no venden porque no interesan a nadie.

Wonderful news, a lovely day, but I don't trust good news and I don't like good weather. Dread has been my faithful companion, and without it I am alone.

What's news?" She put the magazine down and looked at me. "Philip K. Dick is dead." "Who's that?" I asked.

I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing.

This was the point made by Jon Stewart, the brilliant host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, when he visited CNN's Crossfire: There should be a distinction between news and entertainment. It really matters. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Every night, the TV news is like a nautre hike through the Book of Revelation.

The average person can tolerate being told something which he or she knows nothing about. (Which is why news is an effective advertising approach.) But the average person cannot tolerate being told he or she is wrong. Mind-­changing is the road to advertising disaster.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection while still not managing to secure it – for a range of stupid but nevertheless unbudgeable reasons...The news currently resists giving us the single most calming response one can offer to certain problems: evidence that they are normal and that they belong to a species which is intrinsically (rather than exceptionally) imperfect.

Applied to the news , having perspective involves an ability to compare an apparently traumatic event in the present with the experiences of humanity across the whole of its history – in order to work out what level of attention and fear it should fairly demand. With perspective in mind, we soon realize that – contrary to what the news suggests – hardly anything is totally novel, few things are truly amazing and very little is absolutely terrible.

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself.

With perspective in mind, we soon realize that – contrary to what the news suggests – hardly anything is totally novel, few things are truly amazing and very little is absolutely terrible.

A flourishing life requires a capacity to recognize the times when the news no longer has anything original or important to teach us; periods when we should refuse imaginative connection with strangers, when we must leave the business of governing, triumphing, failing, creating or killing to others, in the knowledge that we have our own objectives to honour in the brief time still allotted to us.

The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.