“Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.” PeopleThinkingWellsRealNamesDealsEnvironmentNewsExpectingTrapsReportersObscureConferencesAttendingBriefing Author:Tom Brokaw
“This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.” WorldHandsNatureSimpleEnvironmentSweetJudgingMessagesNewsLettersCommittedMajestyCountrymen Author:Emily Dickinson
“We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.” WorldStatesEnoughSportsUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentNewsFortunateTraveled Author:Payne Stewart
“Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.” FeelsImportantStoriesPoliticalIssuesEnvironmentNewsTreatsPopulationHelplessPolitical LifeNews StoriesBummer Author:Rachel Dratch
“We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?” IfsThinkingWantShouldPersonsJobsOpinionEnvironmentNewsDeserveDecidedElectionClintonDemocratAccessDebateJournalistCandidatesCyclesFoxesGreat JobFox NewsBoycott Author:Sean Hannity
“Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.” StatesEnvironmentNewsUglyFrightening Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
“It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.” IfsFactsWould BeCareFunnyTurnsFunAnimalEnvironmentWeekKingsGoodnessNewsRedFellowsThreatFishesGenuineVegetarianShellsMarineImpressiveEcologicalCrabsJuicyNorwayMarine LifeNorwegiansScoffing Author:Ian O'Doherty
“I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I” ThinkingEnvironmentPaperNewsHearingNewspapersPapersPrematureAdaptingObituary Author:Arianna Huffington
“The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.” PeopleMadeCareYoungFallEnvironmentYouthNewsAdultsBurdenMessRecognizingGreat News Author:Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
“The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaAbilityLeaderEnvironmentRepublicanNewsArgumentFolksVotersFoxesBack And ForthCommentatorsFox NewsPartisanshipCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.” PeopleIfsWayEndsInterestIssuesEnvironmentImpossibleConditionsSubjectsMediaStupidPolicyApproachNewsReactionsMake SenseKneesPrisonerInvitesMainstreamCablesJerkPublic PolicyMainstream MediaNews MediaCable NewsKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Rachel Maddow
“I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.” IfsChildrenProblemSocialHoursMorningEnvironmentInternetNewsEconomicsAbuseChecksChild AbuseEvery MorningHomelessnessDays OffScanning Author:Samantha Morton