“The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.” IdeasFunnyNamesGroupsNewsDefinitionsMilesSpotsPostsThoughtfulPensNew IdeasEssaysBlogsBloggingMiles AwayBloggers Author:Steve Rubel
“Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.” PeopleThinkingWellsRealNamesDealsEnvironmentNewsExpectingTrapsReportersObscureConferencesAttendingBriefing Author:Tom Brokaw
“There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.” NeedsCharacterNamesNewsSakeSmear Campaigns Author:Ricky Williams
“History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.” KnowsMenWantHumansChildrenTurnsEvilNamesParentHistoryBrotherWasteNewsPagesPressesPainfulStrikesHuman PotentialChildren And Parents Book:Education and Ecstasy: With, Source: Education and Ecstasy: With,
“Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.” BookDifferentFoundNamesInterestingNewsPhonesListsHotelDifferent Place Author:Cassandra Clare
“On Fox News, Donald Trump said Obama's birth certificate could indicate that he's a Muslim. Trump said he doesn't trust anyone with a foreign-sounding name, and neither does his daughter Ivanka.” DoeSaidNamesTrumpBirthNewsDaughterFoxesFox NewsCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Conan O'Brien
“People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.” PeopleThinkingFirstsReasonSeemsYoungWinningNamesMediaBenefitsNewsTownsFolksConservativeScaryExpectedFoxesSmall TownConnectingIowaFox NewsPrismsFunny Name Author:Barack Obama
“I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.” PeopleIfsGivingShouldNamesProductsNewsSellingConfusedI'm Confused Author:Andy Warhol
“News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.” PeopleWayFirstsMeanChildrenWarBodySchoolNamesRaceTvsBattleNewsRacismSouthDinnerGradesVietnamHouseholdBloodyComing BackReally MeanRiotAlabamaGrades In SchoolRace Riots Author:Jello Biafra
“Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.” NamesNewsPoliceEntertainmentPrintBlogs Author:J. B. Smoove
“Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.” ShouldShowsMightRunningNamesPresidentWillingMarriedNewsDressesDemocraticDemocratCurrentsDebateCandidatesFrighteningFoxesHostileHusseinFox NewsForumsMachoNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.” PersonsLongImportantSelfLightEyeNamesShapesNewsCarriePortraitsBentGood NewsInner SelfPsychologistLight UpWalletsSelf Portrait Author:Josh McDowell
“I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?” KnowsFacesNamesPresidentCasesSawsMediaTrumpNewsStandingBunchExecutivesFairnessVentureFoxesViewersCablesCnnFox NewsStanding There Author:Kellyanne Conway
“When I got drafted I was sitting at home with my Mom watching the draft live on the internet when my name popped up on the screen. We both jumped up in joy and I immediately called my Dad who was out of town for work. Everyone was thrilled and then about 10 minutes late Matt Anderson (the Marlins scout who drafted me) called to give me the news as well and to start negotiating a contract.” GivingWellsHomeJoyNamesMinutesMomInternetDadLateNewsSittingGive MeTownsMy DadMy MomScreensContractsNegotiating Author:Graham Taylor
“When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more inventive and we have two hands, the left and the right. That is how we think. It's all over our literature, and it's all over the way we arrange archetypes, the good version, the bad version, the god, the devil, the Abel, the Cain, you name it. We arrange things in pairs like that because we know about ourselves.” ThinkingKnowsWayTwoHandsLiteratureNamesLeftNewsDevilVery GoodVersionsPairsArchetypeCainTwo HandsAbel Author:Margaret Atwood
“Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are.” MeanWantedMotherFatherNamesParentUnderstandingCommonGrowing UpGrowingGrewEasierGrew UpNewsUnderstoodWho You AreGrandmotherAffectedGood NewsMy GrandmotherShire Author:Warsan Shire