“News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.” WayHas BeensStatesChurchTelevisionNewsArgumentSeparationMediumsChurch And StateSeparation Between Church And State Author:Leslie Moonves
“Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.” Has BeensNationsLevelsTakenStreetsMediaNewsAdministrationEditorsCowardiceVansIntimidatedBulliedHigh LevelTimidityKatrinaDensNews MediaMemosDowningDowning Street Author:Frank Rich
“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I could now experience what you were experiencing yourself. I am so afraid that they are breaking your spirit.” KnowsHas BeensCharacterSpiritAmbitionNewsHarderReliefLockedArrestedLocked Up Author:Diet Eman
“I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensWarCareValuesFunStuffInterestHurtDarkPayWrittenBabySceneNewsMurderPressesDollarsDon't CarePostsCivil WarLots Of MoneyGood NewsGrossNicheVintageSellersYuck Author:Ransom Riggs
“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
“I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.” TryingHas BeensResponsibilityTakenHappenedNewsDucksBullshitGood NewsCrushedBad TimesDodge Author:Marion Barry
“This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.” Has BeensWonderfulProudInvolvedNewsWonderful Experience Author:Judi Dench
“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
“A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.” WayMayDoeHas BeensEndsMediaFitNewsMovedNewspapersPrint Author:Eugene McCarthy
“My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."” WritingYearsFirstsHas BeensUsedMotherNewsNinePoetry IsGraveyardNine YearsAmsterdamStepmothers Author:Ruby Dee
“The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.” Has BeensPastChoicesChallengesInformationNewsNewspapersDiversion Author:Robert G. Picard
“What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.” PeopleWayHas BeensDoneCharacterShowsLeftConditionsDangerousHuman NatureFitPaperNewsFlyingSundayShow MeKitesAntisocial Book:No Poems Source: No Poems
“For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.” PeopleMindHeartLittlesHas BeensMadeStoriesRunningCryEmotionalTrustSafeNewsPagesAdultsLike MeDriversReportersTrust MeNotebookNeatSafe Places Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.” IfsMenWorldShouldHas BeensEnemyTaughtSweetBrotherGayMessagesNewsCapableCapacityTreatsHealLiberationCompetitorsGay Liberation Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays
“I'm sure you know by now, Jesse Jackson was overheard saying, and I'll put this more delicately, that he wanted to cut Barack Obama's testicles off. And Jesse has been on several news programs the last couple of days, explaining what he meant by those comments. Do you need to explain that?” KnowsNeedsHas BeensWantedLastsCuttingCoupleNewsProgramBarackCommentExplainingTesticles Author:Jay Leno
“Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.'” WorldHas BeensPresidentNewsFellowsStationsPresident ObamaBin LadenSave The WorldOsama Bin Laden Author:Craig Ferguson
“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.” PersonsHas BeensMatterStoriesStreetsNew YorkWallNewsDetermineAvailableEveningPostsJournalHandfulNew York TimesNews StoriesWall Street Journal Author:Walter Cronkite
“I won't live in L.A. again, hell no, my friends tell me s**t when they come over I don't want to hear. I don't even know who got married and who got pregnant. You turn on the news in L.A. and it is all gossip about people. All the stuff that is going on in the world right now and this gossip is the news?... I love the BBC. I haven't heard myself mentioned on TV since I have been here. That has been really weird for me, and great.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantLoveHas BeensTurnsStuffHellHeardHavensTvsRight NowMarriedNewsMy FriendsGossipPregnantTurn-onGreat LoveReally Weird Author:Lindsay Lohan
“I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.” WorldYearsFirstsMeanHas BeensMadePurposeJesusTermWorryViolenceMilitaryNewsPropagandaFollowersGood NewsSubversiveInsistingNo WorriesSacrificial Love Author:Rob Bell
“There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time.” PeopleTryingLongHas BeensCountryPartyMovementBrotherNewsLong TimeHorseWingsSeedsTeaUpsetAgendasFoxesRight WingBillionaireTea PartyFox NewsStockings Author:Al Gore
“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.” DoeHas BeensFactsBodyChristianJesusCasesDoorsWallWorshipNewsEmptyGlassesGloriousPrintThank GodTombsJerusalemTabloidsNazareth Author:Peter Marshall
“I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.” TryingHas BeensEndsNightGoalLinesOpinionWeekInvolvedNewsAvailableAnalysisReportersFridayCoveringFriday Night Author:Gwen Ifill
“There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.” PeopleYearsHas BeensProblemSchoolStuffPresidentTalkingNewsExcellentAssociationFoxesAdvancementHarvardAnalystsFox NewsAdvancement Of Science Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.” Has BeensUsedWaterFiguresMajorsNewsReportsAlsAl QaedaCustody Author:Jane Mayer
“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
“All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.” Has BeensAmericaShareReturnTrumpHigherNewsOrganizationMissionsCorporationsMassiveAllegianceDividendsGruntShare Price Author:Laurie Garrett
“Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"” KnowsNeedsHas BeensEnoughValuesHugeNewsProfitDrivenPrioritiesJournalismHierarchyMarginsMergersProfit Margin Author:Bill Moyers
“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
“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
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?” Has BeensGamesSocialBitsCuttingPlayerTeamMediaInformationSourceNewsSocial MediaStormLeagueOur TimeSiteFogSpeculationRumorBlogsTweetWhimMillsJournalisticFauxChurningDrivelGame Changers Author:Robert Lipsyte
“Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.” Has BeensRepublicanNewsDemocratSenateGood News Author:Jay Leno
“So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMeanPersonsHas BeensGamesRichPossibilityQuietTaxesNewsMadRaisedDareServantRich PeopleBad NewsAccountantsButlersRich PersonCroquet Author:Craig Ferguson
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.” Has BeensViewsReaderNewsNewspapersGenuineMagazinesIllustration Author:Andy Grundberg
“Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensCompanyRecordsMajorsNewsPressesRadioLabelsCynicismGood NewsRecord CompaniesDisillusioned Author:Mick Hucknall
“The president receives an inspector general's report that the Office of Personnel Management could be hacked into; they had antiquated firewalls; 23 million files have been - are in the hands of the Chinese allegedly, including, by the way, members of the press, it turns out, last week. Maybe that's the only part that's good news, so that you guys can get a feel for what it's like now to see this type of attack.” WayFeelsHas BeensHandsLastsGuyTurnsPresidentMillionsWeekTypeMembersOfficeNewsManagementPressesIncludingChineseReportsGood NewsFilesPersonnelHackedInspectors Author:Jeb Bush
“What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.” Has BeensChristPoorPovertyBrokenNewsCrossesRichesChainsGood NewsAbraham Author:John Hagee
“Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.” FirstsHas BeensCountryAmericaBlackPresidentNew YorkWillingMembersNewsBillsGolfClintonClubsOfficialsFoxesFox NewsSponsorsThursdayCountry Clubs Author:Argus Hamilton
“No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensPlayWholeTogetherAmericaPastNationsPresidentPiecesStyleFiguresNewsSeriesVicesJournalistInterviewsAddressesFriendlyEntityConferencesVice PresidentGreat NationsEntirety Author:Peggy Noonan
“I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it`s bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.” KnowsHas BeensShowsHateNewsI HateShootingBad News Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.” WayTryingHumansLongHas BeensRealCountryHuman BeingsViolenceNewsLong TimeConsequenceSickConsequences Of Violence Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.” YearsHas BeensAudienceMediaInformationNewsWingsConservativeRadioTrustedFoxesOutletsRight WingFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Chris Hayes
“And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.” YearsHas BeensStillsLastsFormCompanyOfficeNewsHarderBoxesEntertainmentBudgetsHorizonLast YearGood NewsBox Office Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.” FirstsHas BeensTogetherResultsNumbersThousandNewsThirdsConstantEntertainmentCampaignsFasterPresidentialCyclesPaceOutletsExplosionsCoveringBrutalityPresidential Campaign Author:Kevin Madden
“Jennifer Lopez has been very much in the news because of her divorce from Marc Anthony, also a top singer, a top player in Latin music, her joining the cast of judges on "American Idol." But the music has not been at the forefront.” Has BeensPlayerJudgingNewsCastsDivorceSingersLatinIdolsJoiningJenniferAmerican IdolLatin Music Author:Jennifer Lopez
“The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now - almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.” WayYearsHas BeensEnoughBlackBehindsTeamLuckyNewsActressesGood News Author:Regina King
“Thanks to NBC News and thanks to the NBC primetime TV network, Donald Trump has been in living rooms for 11 years being who he is. The Donald Trump running for president is not an unknown quantity. The Donald Trump running for president is the Donald Trump everybody's gotten to know, and quite a lot of people watch those Donald Trump TV shows, The Apprentice and whatever else on there.” PeopleKnowsYearsHas BeensShowsRunningPresidentRoomsWatchesTvsTrumpNewsThanksQuantityTv ShowsLiving RoomApprenticeNbcNbc News Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.” NeedsLongHas BeensEnoughStoriesBigsMightMovingNextPayAttentionMinutesMediaMissingInformationCommunicationEasierNewsHotPay AttentionThese DaysInstantScoreCyclesCoveredSixtyReportersOutletsNoveltyFiltersAlways MovingInstant CommunicationSixty Minutes Author:Arianna Huffington
“Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.” Has BeensSpiritMediaMissingTelevisionSeriousNewsSoldierCinemaPrintReplacedDiscourseRogerPassed AwayValiantPrint Media Author:Werner Herzog
“I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the most of an argument against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, by using some of the things that have been put on the news.” IfsHas BeensWould BeTrumpMessagesNewsConcernedArgumentClintonSecretary Author:Star Jones