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“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.”

Thinking World Hard Stories Lasts Night Found Accepting Happened Century Events News Bigger Reports Pot Drag Reporters Inability Last Night Neat Cumulative

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche. It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.”

Thinking Media Events Truth Is Appreciate Journalist Reports Mainstream Closest Sheer Cliche Algorithms Mainstream Media Awfulness

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.”

Ifs Way Believe Looks Numbers Events News Okay Chosen Rational Evening Reports Accurate Probability Lottery Improbable Improbability

Author:William Lane Craig

“Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.”

Ifs Should May Imagination Quality Events Objects Photography Essence Reports Journalistic

Book:New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

Source: New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

“I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.”

Thinking Kind Art Certain Events Civilization Reports Reporters

Book:Leon Golub: do paintings bite? : selected texts 1948-1996

Source: Leon Golub: do paintings bite? : selected texts 1948-1996

“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”

Knows Ideas Different Science Order Understanding Answers Events Concern Function Increase Philosophical Reports Interpretation Implications Factual Philosophical Questions

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or routine-to air, water, or soil. The Toxics Release Inventory is the main registry of such events, and it is available to the public through the Environmental Protection Agency. It is hardly comprehensive. Toxic emissions reported to the federal government are thought to account for only 5 percent of all chemical releases.”

“The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.”

Records Events Evidence Winter Extremes Objectives Weather Reports Global Warming Etc Temperature Assertion Drought Wildfires Extreme Weather

Author:James Taylor