“As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.” WayMayTwoFactsSimpleNewsHighestConsequenceIdealsRegardDecadesStatementsJournalismEveningReportsControversyAnchorman Author:Walter Cronkite
“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongWould BeForgetFourPaperNewsTwentiesDecadesDisappointedPapersDroppingFinishingBad NewsExpectancyLife ExpectancyConvocation Author:Adrian Tan
“The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.” IfsWorldShouldLittlesAbleNewsDestructionSeriesDecadesAround The WorldRestaurantsVisibleShopsChicagoVietnamBeatenShowing UpLebanon Book:Killing Orders Source: Killing Orders
“Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenHas BeensNewsCriticsConservativeRadioDecadesFavorsAlternativesLunchFoxesBiasedFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Larry Elder
“I think scandal probably attracted more American attention to Formula 1 than anything else in American news in decades. And that`s because it was a sex scandal, a particularly lurid sex scandal involving this guy Max Mosley.” ThinkingGuySexAttentionNewsDecadesFormulasThis GuyScandalMaxInvolvingFormula 1 Author:Rachel Maddow
“The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.” PastThreeIndividualCareersRolesChangedBalanceNewsDecadesGood NewsAutonomyOver The PastWomen's RolesIndividual Autonomy Author:Michael Kimmel
“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.” PoliticalHouseLeftWhiteBoysFourMediaEatingNewsMalesDecadesDustJournalismWhite HouseBusExposedOutsidersPacksReportersAlaskaInsidersGals Author:Michelle Malkin
“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.” AbleLastsFoundSocialAbilityPureNewsPagesIntelligentDecadesNewspapersCommentElsewhereEntertainingPertinent Author:Elayne Boosler