“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“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.” ThinkingWorldBookWarStoriesCultureCitiesMovementPeriodsNewsPopsMagazinesWar Of The WorldsEmpiresWorld War IPop CultureProhibitionTemperanceBoardwalksAtlantic CityBoardwalk Empire Author:Terence Winter
“Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.” BigsCitiesModernMissingNew YorkPaperNewsAccountsNotesPostsOperaPapersModern LifeResidentsSellersDaily News Author:Dave Barry
“How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."” ThinkingLittlesStoriesBigsTodayFunnyCitiesComedyCrimeTvsNewsBlueHandleHeyLameJackpotTv News Author:Brian Regan
“The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.” ThinkingStoriesBigsRunningCitiesFivePaperNewsMurderTownsPhotographerUniversityNewspapersClockChicagoReportersPapersScandalJuicy Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.” FirstsTwoHouseNationsWhiteCitiesNew YorkNewsOrganizationCaughtBoxesTerrorismFlightVulnerabilityReportsPoundsWhite HouseNew York CityInvestigationContinuingFifteenSeptemberReportersFoxesTouringFlewBin LadenSeptember 11FourteenRazorsSprayOsama Bin LadenFox NewsPeppersUraniumCuttersDaily NewsPepper Spray Author:Dave Barry
“I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.” ShowsTodayCitiesNew YorkNewsDisappointmentThanksNew York CityGood NewsAlex Author:David Letterman
“When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly.” LittlesStillsStatesBitsInterestUnitedCitiesUnited StatesTelevisionMajorsLittle BitNewsEntertainmentTheatreAmbassadorsVisibility Author:Lee Greenwood
“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.” WantDoeHateCitiesMoonNewsIsraelRussiaWowApartmentSecretaryBansKoreanBad NewsJerusalem Author:Ben Stein
“I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.” FeltCitiesMorningFourWonderfulBloodNew YorkFieldsComputerNewsWarmOur TimeBombsTouchedEggsNew York CityElectricityNestsCleverness Book:Evidence: Poems Source: Evidence: Poems