Quotes About News
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.
~ Dave Barry
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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
~ Dave Eggers
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What's the good news? -Pardon? -You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way. -There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.
~ David Benioff
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On Thursday, Farrow was at the venerable New Yorker writer Roger Angell's desk, working frantically to close the Moonves piece, when Kim Masters called from The Hollywood Reporter, saying she was breaking the news about his Moonves exposé, and asked if he wanted to comment.
~ James B. Stewart
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You may be yesterday's news to some but you will be tomorrows front page to many
~ James Church
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Desterrado? ¿Y eso qué significa? -no pudo evitar la pregunta, aunque sabía que no podía ser nada bueno si Chuck pensaba que era peor que estar muerto. En ese instante, tuvo la sensación más perturbadora desde su llegada al Área. Chuck no contestó, simplemente sonrió. A pesar de todo, a pesar de lo horrible que era esa situación, se rió. Luego salió corriendo, tal vez para contarle a otro las emocionantes noticias.
~ James Dashner
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When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion.
~ James G. Snell
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As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.
~ James Haught
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Without the Bible's bad news, its good news will have no meaning.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
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And LO and BEHOLD, I was on BOTH the six AND eleven o'clock newscasts! AND all the commercials, as well! ('Day of the drag queen at one area high school, controversy at six!') And it must have been a slow night because I was the SECOND PIECE of the night! The granny suicide bomber got the lead. BITCH! But I managed to beat out the president's pulled groin and day six of the Jessica Simpson chapped-lip crisis!
~ James St. James
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Fools make news, and wise men carry it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
~ Douglas Adams
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You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.
~ Douglas Adams
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
~ Douglas Adams
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You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh? Well, business as usual, I suppose.
~ Douglas Adams
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Tricia was a TV anchor person, and New York was where most of the world's TV was anchored. Tricia's TV anchoring had been done exclusively in Britain up to that point: regional news, then breakfast news, early evening news. She would have been called, if the language allowed, a rapidly rising anchor, but…hey, this is television, what does it matter? She was a rapidly rising anchor.
~ Douglas Adams
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Can't take it, huh?" said the man. Without the slightest movement he was now back, sitting cross-legged, on top of the pole forty feet in front of Arthur. "You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh? Well, business as usual, I suppose." He sighed and squinted mournfully into the distance.
~ Douglas Adams
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For Knox, preaching was all about proclaiming the evangel of Jesus Christ, giving good news to a world that for too long had heard only bad news.
~ Douglas Bond
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HISTORICAL UNDERDOSING: To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts. ¶ HISTORICAL OVERDOSING: To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
~ Douglas Coupland
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News of the murder had her all in a tizzy.
~ Douglas Preston
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What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!
~ Agatha Christie
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It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud. (Hercule Poirot)
~ Agatha Christie
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I've been gossiping a little. In shops—and waiting for buses. Old ladies are supposed to be inquisitive. Yes, one can pick up quite a lot of local news.
~ Agatha Christie
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
~ Agnes Smedley
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