“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.” IdeasShowsSeemsCertainForceInterestCasesColdFitNewsDetailsMythThirstBangsFilesBumperStickerBumper StickerCold Case Author:Hal Sparks
“In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.” MadeRealPastCertainEffortHalfNewsAimHeartedCosmeticsHalf Hearted Author:Roone Arledge
“There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.” KnowsFeelsLooksCertainIssuesToo MuchNewsThese DaysCartoonCartoonistEditorialsIllustrating Author:Paul Conrad
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.” ShouldHomeCertainPresidentDealsInformationOughtDirectorsNewsCrisisUniversityVicesGrayFloridaExplainingAssistantsVice PresidentConsultantsOrlandoExplaining Things Author:Linda Gray
“I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a part of that world, so I understand. But when you're actually seeing what's happening, you can't help but be a little affected.” PeopleWorldLittlesI CanHelpingCertainWatchesSeeingNewsHappeningsAffected Author:Selena Gomez
“Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.” MenSaidLightCertainHouseLinesComedyFansFootballNewsAreasPoliceWestWittyHearingLondonSavingSoccerAnalysisOperaFrankPenaltiesStolenLiverpoolTuesdayGoalkeepersPorscheWhereaboutsAnfield Author:Declan Lynch
“There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.” CertainUnderstandingLevelsNewsFolksFoxesSophisticationFox News Author:David Shuster
“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.” MayGovernmentCertainOrderGivenHoursPlansWorstReadyNewsTownsPopulationDestinationGenocideMinorsAsiaInsignificantPursuedOctoberProvincesExplicitMassacresExterminationArmeniansDeportationArmenian GenocideOttomansMesopotamiaReady To Leave Author:Herbert Adams Gibbons
“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.” MenDoeWarRealitySeemsCertainEmotionSituationMilitaryFrontsEventsDangerExamplePerceptionNewsMassArmySurpriseCrowdsSensitiveExpertsVisibleRaysDefeatedObscureTranscendentalAurasGreat Events Author:Marcel Proust
“I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.” ThinkingCertainCoursesInterestSpecialReaderNewsOrganizationYeahPressesProfitCommunicateBiasViewersSpecial Interests Author:Mark McKinnon
“But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.” PeopleWantCertainRealizingViolenceNewsComplicatedRealize Things Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.” WayRealStoriesHappensCertainOpinionShapesNewsBeing RealTexture Author:Colum McCann
“The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.” ThinkingWayWarStoriesFilmGuyCertainChoicesConversationDegreesNewsRadioBackgroundsReactionsPersonal StoriesRadio News Author:Elijah Wood
“I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.” ThinkingCertainWrittenNewsPrejudiceReports Author:James McBride
“There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.” FactsCertainResponsibilityOpinionTvsNewsOnlineTv News Author:Barbara Boxer
“I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.” PeopleCertainTelevisionTvsIndustryNewsPressureCarefulAspireTelevision News Author:Ali Velshi
“I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.” CertainClassWatchesMilitaryAmountPaperNewsVoteLuxuryUpsetPocketsWorking ClassLapAngstTrenchesMilitary Family Author:Pink
“Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.” EndsCertainDiesNextGamesLevelsNumbersNewsVideoBad NewsNext LevelGame Over Author:Zadie Smith
“When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.” IfsMomentsFactsStoriesSeemsCertainFallAsksAcceptingMediaAcceptanceSourceBrokenAmountRight NowNewsDeceptionHelplessGuiseSloppyNews Stories Author:Sheryl Crow