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“If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”

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Author:Graham Nelson

“Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.”

“Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.”

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Author:Kal Penn

“I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.”

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Author:Kevin Powers

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.”

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Author:Steve Rubel

“If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.”

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Author:Pete du Pont

“With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.”

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Author:Erik Qualman

“One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.”

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Author:Erik Qualman

“One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.”

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Author:Frank Rich

“Time off from the news is always something I welcome.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.”

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Author:Kim Raver

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

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Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.”

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Author:Ray Stevenson

“The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.”

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Author:Greta Van Susteren

“Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.”

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Author:Hal Sparks

“I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.”

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Author:Jason Sudeikis

“I just get my news from the Internet.”

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Author:Matt Stone

“Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.”

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Author:Ron Suskind

“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

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Author:Ron Suskind

“I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.”

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Author:Shepard Smith

“At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.”

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Author:Tabitha Soren

“At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.”

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Author:Tabitha Soren

“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.”

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Author:Tabitha Soren

“American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.”

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Author:Evan Thomas

“I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.”

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Author:Justin Theroux

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

“CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.”

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Author:Jim C. Walton

“Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.”

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Author:Jim C. Walton

“As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.”

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Author:Venus Williams

“I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.”

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Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.”

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Author:Tom Brokaw

“Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.”

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Author:Tom Brokaw

“Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”

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“It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.”

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Author:Kurt Loder

“I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.”

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Author:Rebecca Loos

“In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.”

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Author:Al Franken

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