“It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.” SaidShowsReadingHouseGivenWhiteEventsResearchPressesCurrentsEightBonesNewspapersWhite HouseFilesCurrent Events Author:June Lockhart
“Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.” WorldYearsFirstsTwoLiteratureLanguageKnownHappenedEventsPressesWesternDrivingDestroyedGreekEmpiresScholarDocumentsPrintingWestern WorldEpochPrinting PressConstantinople Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.” PeopleSeemsMediaEventsBiggerMirrorsPressesNewspapersJournalism Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.” ProblemScienceSocialNaturalConditionsEventsLessonsNegativePressesInstancePrimeRelativitySocial ScienceNatural ScienceCorrelation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.” BookWould BeEventsTerribleBlessingPressesPensTerrible ThingsInventorPrintingAlphabetPrinting Press Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.” FacesMovingHouseWhiteEventsInformationAmountResponsiblePressesEnormousAgendasWhite HouseSecretaryCompetingGrease Author:Dee Dee Myers
“When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It'll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period.” PeopleAirEventsPositionPersonalityPeriodsWindowBreathsPressesDeterminedTreatmentFresh AirHoneymoon Author:Ted Gup
“The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.” HumansRealityProcessEventsObjectsParticularBearsPressesPhotographerReactionsAuthenticityThemeAnguishPowerlessStampsPurification Author:Yukio Mishima
“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.” MenWorldFirstsStreetsEventsReaderPhotographyOrdinaryWindowPressesVillageOutlookShrinksOrdinary Man Author:Gisele Freund
“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.” EventsPhotographyPressesPhotographCurrentsNakedArtisticLandscapeCurrent Events Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.” KnowsHas BeensIdeasEndsEasyEventsPresses Author:Garry Winogrand
“You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.” SaidDoneHouseGivenDemocracyNiceEventsRepublicanSittingPressesAssaultUnprecedentedNice ThingsAmerican Democracy Author:James Carville