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“When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.”

Needs Mistake Fronts News Pages Reporters

“Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.”

Ifs Watches News Program Terrorism

Author:Jon Stewart

“If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.”

People Ifs Giving Streets Minutes News Satire Amber Rioting

Author:Jon Stewart

“The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.”

Trying Said Ends Dies Found Conditions Husband News Doctors Okay They Said Patches Bad News Arteries

Author:Sharon Stone

“You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.”

Want Stories Government Week News Filled Officials Afternoon Weekend Anticipation Good News Monday Friday Bureaucrats Dump Government Officials Friday Afternoon

Author:John Sununu

“Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.”

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Author:John Sununu

“In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.”

World News Good News Bad News Business World Good News And Bad News

Author:James Surowiecki

“To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.”

Sometimes Stuff Watches Teach Tvs Computer News Documentaries Daddy Geek Programmes Informative Mommy And Daddy

Author:Adora Svitak

“Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.”

Trying Media Products News Advertising Terrified News Media

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.”

Knows Wells Made Born One Thing News Iraq Obvious Afghanistan Destined

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“I only watch MSNBC for the news.”

Watches News

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.”

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Author:James Taylor

“It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.”

Firsts News Ill

Author:Aeschylus

“Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.”

Should News These Days Diamond Good News Priceless

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“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.”

Different Given Felt Reader News Models Access Newspapers Online Suspects Entitlement Hindsight Entitlement Programs

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.”

People Sports Television News Fortune Diverse Good Fortune Professional Sports

Author:Ted Turner

“I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.”

Want Years Watches Havens Serious News Entertainment

Author:Ted Turner

“I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“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.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”

Should Waiting Cases News Gossip Sacraments Confirmation

Author:Voltaire

“I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'”

Years Night News Luck Legends Good Luck Good Night Good Night And Good Luck

Author:Mike Wallace

“Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.”

May Today News Phones Rings Good News

Author:Ethel Waters

“You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.”

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“I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.”

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Author:Lil Wayne

“The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.”

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Author:Paul Weyrich

“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”

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“There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.”

Ifs Two Country Sex Rooms News Sells Familiar Sex Sells

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.”

World Bigs Three Sports Events News Gold Medal Gold Medals Big News

Author:Esther Williams

“I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.”

People Wells Remember Black News Hip Hop Hips Hops Suspects Black People Foxes Chuck Biased Cnn Fox News Back In The Day

Author:Saul Williams

“Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.”

Needs Opinion News Flow Driven Mediums Discussion Links Fluid Visitors

Author:Fred Wilson

“I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.”

Film Used Hours Media News Cycles Promoting Outlets Used To Love

Author:Debra Winger

“On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.”

Use News Google

Author:Steve Wozniak

“The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.”

Imagination News Best Things Capture

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.”

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Author:Elayne Boosler

“I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.”

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Author:Rachel Zoe

“Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.”

Games News Chess

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.”

Benefits News Yesterday Terrorist Eggs Seekers Neighbour Asylums Asylum Seekers

Author:Julian Baggini

“I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

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