“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
“But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.” BodyCultureMediaElementsNewsWorthyYour BodyCosmicItemsCoverageNot WorthyPredetermined Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.” IfsWayWritingMindMayHappensTurnsStuffWindFameNewsLettersSouthWoodsEastSettlingDryAfternoonItemsShiftingDrawersPaychecksSettling DownLetter Writing Author:Robert Benchley
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayAbilityTalkingSeeingHonestMediaChangedPaperApproachNewsPlentyAlternativesBeing HonestRealmsOnlineStoppingPapersItemsPublishColumnsBloggingColumnistsPeople TalkingTalking Back Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.” DifferentShowsThreeStarsPartyWeekNewsReactionsExtrasGossipThree TimesItemsVegasLas VegasPremieres Author:Holly Madison
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” WayNeedsHas BeensMadeMomentsPastPoliticalPoliticsPartyOpinionRecordsMinutesExpressionNewsEvidenceCleanPredictionsDocumentariesItemsUp To DatePalimpsest Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984