“I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.” LooksDifficultWatchesNewsHappeningsVictimFallen Author:Kevin Powers
“Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.” KnowsFeelsYearsI CanWholeMovingKnowingNewsHappeningsSpendingWhole LifeGet BetterNot KnowingGood News Author:Venus Williams
“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.” PeopleWorldWayOpinionSourceNewsHappeningsAppreciateBest WayObjectivesStaffAppreciate People Author:George W. Bush
“We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.” ThinkingYearsEndsTechnologyNewsHappeningsFeminineBalancedReignPatriarchyGood News Author:Leonard Shlain
“I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a part of that world, so I understand. But when you're actually seeing what's happening, you can't help but be a little affected.” PeopleWorldLittlesI CanHelpingCertainWatchesSeeingNewsHappeningsAffected Author:Selena Gomez
“I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsBelieveSpiritAsksBlackVoiceMediaTvsNewsHappeningsConnectionsInstrumentsRadioNewspapersStatementsEducatedTelling The TruthStationsProgressivePublishSincerelyRepressionTrue FreedomRadio StationsNews MediaVoiceless Author:Assata Shakur
“The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.” FactsHappensHappenedNewsHappeningsJournalismElsewhereItemsComfortingAbhorrent Author:John Fowles
“Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.” Has BeensI CanPartyNewsHappeningsLet MeAgencyReportsJoining Author:Kapil Dev
“I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.” WorldLooksReadingNewsHappeningsNewspapersMagazinesJunkieReading Newspapers Author:Michael Franti
“Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings” NewsHappeningsSpreadFasterRumor Author:Amit Abraham
“The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.” YearsMayHas BeensEnoughGovernmentSecretGenerationsMiddleMediaNewsMassHappeningsEasternWrathGrapesMass MediaAmerican GovernmentGist Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .” IfsNeedsBelieveLongEndsBigsGovernmentHappensEyeRunningNationsInterestMy OwnQualityDemocracySawsMediaHugeApproachNewsHappeningsTransformationProfoundJournalismGiantsPublishingLong RunsBig GovernmentBroadcastersFramers Author:Bill Moyers
“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
“I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.” YearsBigsNaturalNewsHappeningsRedCrossesSouthEntertainmentDisasterCaliforniaReportersHurricanesEarthquakesCarolinaMiamiAndrewRecoveringNatural DisasterSouth CarolinaCharlestonRed CrossCharleston South Carolina Author:Nancy O'Dell
“It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.” TryingMomentsShowsForceCausesInterestingRight NowNewsHappeningsPolicePolice ForceFerguson Author:Ethan Hawke
“Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.” HelpingStoriesAgeNextDoorsEventsCitizensNewsHappeningsResourcesTraditionalJournalistDigitalSiteGatheringHighlightsOverlookedDigital AgeTapping Author:Arianna Huffington
“In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.” PeopleAmericaGivenTakenSawsDangerousPositionStrangeNewsHappeningsScaryOnlineJust BeingDangerous PlacesReally ScaryStrange Places Author:Trevor Noah
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.” PeopleKnowsWorldWatchesNewsHappeningsTapeJunkieBreadth Author:Lorna Luft
“Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in government or government subsidies for our current food system that's a disaster and not sustainable? Yes. That would be really great, but a lot of that information unless you look for it, it's not available to you because that's not the discussion that's happening on mainstream news.” PeopleThinkingLooksGovernmentWould BeInfluenceInformationNewsHappeningsCurrentsAvailableDisasterCommitCorporateDiscussionMainstreamReally GreatAtrocitiesSubsidiesMonsanto Author:Ellen Page
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.” PeopleIfsKnowsReasonDarkEmotionInformationNewsHappeningsExpectationsNegativeBad NewsNegative Emotions Author:Simon Sinek
“There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantIdeasTodayReadingImaginationLordFantasyEternalNewsHappeningsTestsRingsTouchingImaginativeArchetypeHuman ImaginationTest Of Time Author:Clive Barker
“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.” PeopleWritingLittlesSometimesLightFallNextRealizingWatchesSawsTeacherMiddleTearsHairShapesLateNewsHappeningsIncludingLegsAdmireFlamesToo LateFavouriteHomelessSoupDiariesSceneryHomeless People Author:Joe Dunthorne
“All new news is old news happening to new people” PeopleNewsHappeningsOld News Author:Malcolm Muggeridge