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“I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.”

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“To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.”

“Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.”

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Author:Kapil Dev

“Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.”

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Author:Bobby Seale

“I like BBC news, I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.”

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Author:Brian Grazer

“The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.”

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Author:Larry Hagman

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.”

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Author:Fred Barnes

“The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.”

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Author:Barbara Walters

“We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.”

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Author:Linda Ellerbee

“A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.”

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Author:Eugene McCarthy

“Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.”

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Source: How the Mind Works

“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.”

People Want News Parts Of Life Bad News

Author:Woody Allen

“I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."”

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Author:Ruby Dee

“I hate how on TV they have to fill so many minutes. It means they have to put in anything, and by doing so they sort of trivialize news; news becomes this commodity that they need to fill dead time between commercials with.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.”

“Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.”

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Author:David Shuster

“Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

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Author:David Shuster

“The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.”

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Author:Jill Abramson

“I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.”

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Author:Simon Hoggart

“Our show is obviously at a disadvantage with any of the other news shows we're competing against. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility, we are ... well, oddly enough we're about even.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.”

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Author:Gerry Adams

“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.”

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Author:Leonard Lance

“I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.”

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Author:Missy Peregrym

“I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.”

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Author:Ira Glass

“I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.”

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Author:Michael Franti

“The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.”

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Author:Matt Chandler

“Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.”

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Source: The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource

“Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings”

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Author:Amit Abraham

“You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.”

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Author:Lowell Bergman

“If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.”

“A lot of people take shots at news channels.”

People News Shots News Channels

Author:George Stroumboulopoulos

“News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.”

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Author:George Stroumboulopoulos

“I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”

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Author:Craig Newmark

“Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.”

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Author:William Raspberry

“The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Fools make news, and wise men carry it.”

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Source: The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One

“Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.”

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Author:Jann Wenner

“I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.”

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Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!”

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Author:Mohnish Pabrai

“I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.”

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Author:Michael Koryta

“I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.”

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Author:Mike Duke

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