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“News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.”
“News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.”
“News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.”
“News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.”
Source: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
“News
“…she fell into the water from the sky…”
Jae-in Doe
Decedent is an Asian female.
Twenty-two she just had turned.
The cause of death we cannot tell
Despite the many things we’ve learned.
TOP SECRET
My Doe-type can be difficult to track.
Yet here I am, my voice-box playing back
From lips hydrangea-lavender in hue
His thoughts during our first few interviews.
The hair is shoulder-length, the color black.
The height and weight suggest she won’t fight back.
The fingernails are unadorned and short.
The eyes are brown; no makeup do they sport.
The skin appears unpierced and untattooed,
Yet scars of ruby-pearl seem to protrude
Like self-inflicted jewelry on each arm
And wrist—which means she’s vulnerable to harm.
The language of her flesh, as I assess her,
Reveals Confucian worship of professors.
Her deference Korean gives me right
To use her innocence for my delight.”
Source: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018: New Fiction, Poetry, and Category-Defying Literary Gems
“News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“News travelled slower, people travelled slower, and help travelled slowest of all.”
Source: Zekel
“News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.”
“News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all”
Source: The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
“News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.”
“News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.”
“Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Newsflash: you aren't your dad. And you should stop blaming everyone else for what he did. Yourself included.”
“Newshounds are people with mini-video cameras, people who are continually taking pictures in the street and sending the tapes in to CNN. These Newshounds are a sort of pack of wolves, continually looking for quarry, but quarry in the form of images.”
“Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.”
“Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.”
“Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.”
“Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
“Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.”
Source: Bridal Bargains: Secrets to Throwing a Fantastic Wedding on a Realistic Budget
“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
“Newspaper letters review the deserted cities
& drowse at the windows in pale sun & the evening breeze’s rales.
The train has stopped.
("Anna Karenina / October 18, 1910," Translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould )”
Source: House Arrest
“Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.”
“Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you”
“Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.”
“Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally a poster that reads "Stop The War." Or you'll have a story about a cash crisis in Barcelona, and the only picture you'll see is an ATM in Barcelona. The problem is actually systemic. On the one hand, you'll have a picture of a soda can to "illustrate" an article about the dangers of sugary drinks. On the other hand, anything that's reasonable in documentary photography is snapped up by the art world and we never see it.”
“Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.”
“Newspaper readership is still growing in India.”
“Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.”
“Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.”
“Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.”
“Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.”
“Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.”
“Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.”
“Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.”
“Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.”
“Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.”
“Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.”
“Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“Newspapers are horror happening to other people.”
Source: A Sport of Nature
“Newspapers are printing blank.
White ink on white paper.
Gospel truths of humanity spilled.
But no one can read. No one cares to read.
We switch to blue screens for meaning.”
Source: Sun On My Hands: A Poetry and Prose Collection
“Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?”
“Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.”
“Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“Newspapers are the second hand of history.”
Source: Selected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: With Biographical Introduction and Sketch of His Philosophy
“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”
“Newspapers are the world's mirrors.”
“Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.”
Source: How to be a master climber in six easy lessons