“Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.” RememberLanguageProgressStageDevelopmentNewsGood NewsBad NewsDialecticsStages Of DevelopmentPlain Language Book:A Brief History of Everything Source: A Brief History of Everything
“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.” MenWorldArtPhilosophyStoriesChristianEnergyLanguageStarsAnimalMankindWallFitNewsRelationConstantMythCirclesGreekIntimateReportsCompanionBelongingCavesDnaAcquaintanceRumorEgyptianSpeechlessReligion ChristianPrehistoricZodiacNews StoriesHindu ReligionGreek PhilosophyChristian Art Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.” LanguageInterestingNewsBoardsFifteenMulticulturalBlandAdvisorsNews Channels Book:Axis Source: Axis
“Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.” WorldProblemGirlLanguageGrowsSportsGrowing UpPositionAuthorityNewsCuteGood NewsDescribingSkater Author:Anita DeFrantz
“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.” WorldHumansHelpingFeelingsPoetryLanguageLinesSituationImaginePerspectiveHonorNewsToolsDirectMetaphorDetailsMeaningfulGenuinePoetry IsImageryHeadlines Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.” UsedSongLanguageTeachCenturyNewsEthicsConscienceMathematicsTraveled Author:T Bone Burnett
“My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.” WorldMadeBigsLanguageStepsFeminismStyleNew YorkHugePaperNewsStandardsGoldPressesGuidesLocalsMediumsAround The WorldPostsOutletsMistressNew York TimesSmall StepsGold StandardAmerican Language Author:Paula Broadwell
“We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.” LanguageMediaNewsFakeCommerceNews MediaFaux Author:Toni Morrison
“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement” ThinkingMadeDifferentOrderLanguageInformationCommunicationNewsAccomplishNewspapersStatementsObedienceAccomplishedEtcTransmissionRedundancy Author:Gilles Deleuze