“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
“Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.” IfsWorldDreamSocialHalfEconomicNewsEvidencePopulationGenderProductivityGood NewsEconomic Power Author:William J. Clinton
“If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.” IfsWellsMadeTwoHalfShareNewsAdvantageMade ItCompetitorsBad NewsDominating Author:Reggie Fils-Aime
“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantWould BeSchoolLeftHoursHalfSituationOpinionEconomicEventsTelevisionTaughtOughtNewsPressureRidiculousMediumsEveningJournalPublic SchoolHalf Hours Author:Walter Cronkite
“A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.” IfsMenGivingMadeMightPastWinningPoorHalfBreakMillionsNewsDollarsHearingLocalsShockOld ManTicketsPastorMillion DollarsVisitingLottery Author:Art Linkletter
“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.” Has BeensIdeasSelfSeemsPastHalfCenturyMediaTelevisionNewsConservativeToleranceLiberalismDelusionBiasFoxesNormSurrealObjectivityOver The PastFox NewsDeviationSelf Delusion Author:David Limbaugh
“A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.” StatesHalfNewsIncomeGiantsFloridaMiceSpookyPython Author:Dana Gould
“The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.” ThinkingMenWayBehindsHalfDemocracyTvsNewsPercentThanksTwinsTowersSaddamHusseinPollsCalamityHalf TruthTwin Towers Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.” PeopleThinkingFactsHalfGoes OnTrumpNewsConservativeFoxesFox News Author:Erick Erickson
“Half the time, you go on any one of these news sites, whether it be a Yahoo or a Google, and one of the top headlines is always, "Did a comedian go too far?" or "Comedian offends." It's like, "Really? Comedian?" A person that's supposed to make funny and make silly and historically was the only person who was allowed to make fun of the king? We're the ones that you're taking seriously?” PersonsFunHalfGoes OnKingsNewsSillyComedianGoogleSiteHeadlines Author:Brad Williams
“Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.” IfsFeelingsWould BeHoursHalfWonderChildhoodMinutesNewsMortalityMissiles Author:Jane Smiley
“I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.” YearsHalfGrewProudGrew UpNewsNewspapersJournalistCnnHalf A Year Author:Ted Turner
“NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?” PeopleShouldFirstsChildrenSaidGovernmentWould BeAbleSchoolVoiceBehindsHalfOpinionWatchesStudyFiveTeacherGenerationsTeachingMaterialsNewsHigh SchoolOur ChildrenAgreeNewspapersAdministrationSeptemberPublishApprovedChildren LearningSeptember 11th Author:Bill Maher
“The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.” FeelsYearsKindLittlesStillsI CanMightHoursHalfProgressTreeBuildingTenDiseaseNewsYears AgoAll ThingsThirdsAbuseComplainingMilesAll KindsScarFeel BetterBentGood NewsJumpingCravingEightyAlrightCrookedLiverTissuesBetter NowOverdoseJumping OffScar TissueLiver Disease Author:Anthony Kiedis
“Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.” WayYearsHas BeensMightFoundFeltMistakeHalfSawsGenerationsTerribleSafeNewsMiracleDiedDollarsFranceGood NewsPalmsAdvertisementsWitheredPrevious GenerationsTelegramsPendants Author:Libba Bray
“And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.” MindLittlesTwoDifferentScienceSpiritWaterPoorHalfCuttingSeeingBabyEvolutionNewsDearDifferent ThingsLittle ThingsProfessorsHuxley Author:Charles Kingsley