“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsStillsHelpingRememberCareersFourHappenedNewsGive MeScriptsCreditContractsFour YearsGood News Author:Leslie Moonves
“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
“With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before it was deemed worthy of a News Flash. At least one, preferably two, and ideally all four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be involved.” Has BeensTwoHappensHoursFourSkyTelevisionInvolvedNewsWorthyFlashApocalypseAdventHorsemenFour HorsemenFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Author:Declan Lynch
“In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.” SaidWarStatesRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFourTomorrowNewsStonesLettersDemocraticIraqVicesExpectedFormerInterviewsAlsRollingSenatorsPresident BushGoreDeanVice PresidentRolling StonesJohn KerryFour Letter WordsBreaking News Author:Jay Leno
“I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!” KnowsShouldBookThreeAttentionKnowledgeFourOur LivesTearsBandEssentialsPaperNewsBlameNewspapersPensInsignificantPascalInsignificant Things Author:Marcel Proust
“I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.” IfsYearsDoeMadeUseBigsGuyOrderNextNumbersFourCuttingReadyMonthsDirectorsNewsCamerasPreparationShootingBossCostumesGood NewsCastaway Author:Tom Hanks
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.” PeopleYearsWellsLooksSaidStoriesGuyFourMediaAmountNewsCaughtPlusFour YearsThis GuyCorrectionsNews Media Author:Jayson Blair
“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'” IfsKnowsWantFourHeardStreetsWallNewsCampaignsFarmersBetter OffSlogans Author:Bill Maher
“The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.” PoliticalFourNewsAdvantageClintonAccessCampaignsDataRevelationsBelongingVotersSoftwareOld FashionedControversyCoverageBad NewsConfidentialGlitches Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.” PeopleThinkingWorldFourSeeingNewsHappeningsTwentiesSevenAround The WorldEvery SecondBreaking News Author:Biz Stone
“There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country” YearsChildrenLongTwoCountryBodyMotherFoundLeftTermKnownCasesFourMonthsNewsDaughterAbuseHardestBrokeCaliforniaLong TermTwelveHauntingLockersStoragePhysical AbuseRougeBatonBaton Rouge Author:Laura Mullen
“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 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