Quotes About News

There was only so much news you could digest in one day.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

And terror's first cousin: media coverage.

Misfortune is the mother's milk of journalism

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

The economy blows, or don't you read the papers?" "Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.

Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.

El hombre light se alimenta de noticias, mientras que el hombre sólido procura hacer una síntesis de ellas, buscando su sentido. Hay

Even the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, it is said, whose habits were so regular that the citizens of that town set their watches by him, postponed the hour of his afternoon stroll when he received the news, thus convincing Koenigsberg that a world-shaking event had indeed happened.

Replying two weeks later he states his opinion of Fermat's Last Theorem. "I am very much obliged for your news concerning the Paris prize. But I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.

He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.

Where's Feathertail?" Graystripe's gaze flicked past Stormfur as if he expected to see the pale-gray she-cat waiting at the foot of the rocks. Squirrelpaw stared at her paws. Poor, poor Stormfur. He brought the worst news of all, to RiverClan as well as ThunderClan.

What's the news?" called Halftail. "Was ShadowClan there?" asked Willowpelt. "Yes, it was," Bluestar replied gravely. She strode past Willowpelt and leaped up onto Highrock. There was no need for her customary call for a Clan meeting—the cats were already gathering below the rock. Tigerclaw jumped up beside her.

News has warped us now to what we thought our parents were. Our flags wave backwards in a non-directional wind force-fanning our irrationality and silent warmth that resists captivity or even calm.

If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted.

But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.

We saw the cooldown in housing as mostly good news.

A few news articles noted that the bill largely reflected regulations that the Fed had already adopted, but for the most part our contributions were ignored.

Entonces no había periódicos, y las ideas políticas, así como las noticias, circulaban de viva voz, desfigurándose entonces más que ahora, porque siempre fue la palabra más mentirosa que la imprenta.

When I wake up in the morning, I immediately check the morning paper. If my name is not in the obituaries, I get up