“The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. In Jonah's day, Nineveh was the lone world superpower-wealthy, unconcerned, and self-centered. When the Prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God's warning, people heard and repented. I believe the same thing can happen once again, this time in our nation. It's something I long for.” PeopleWorldBelieveHeartLongSelfHappensAmericaI BelieveNationsLordWonderfulHeardMy HeartNewsMercyProphetWealthyRepentanceWarningTraveledAcheDeceivedOur LordSelf CenteredSuperpowerLoneSpiralsJonahHeart AcheUnconcernedMy Heart Aches Author:Billy Graham
“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
“I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.” PeopleTryingLongWantedNewsLong TimeGratefulMiserableCablesPunditsCable News Author:Meghan McCain
“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 bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.” PeopleMetsNewsForgivingGuiltyGod LoveBad News Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.” PeopleAbleGraceBearsNewsGoodJudgementGood NewsBad NewsGod's Grace Author:Timothy Keller
“One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.” PeopleMadeImportantHavensSkillsNewsMouthsInterviewsNuance Author:Lester Holt
“The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox News, which has created an echo chamber in which people just hear the same ideas repeated ad infinitum. And you know, it's just basic advertising, basically. You hear the same idea over and over again. Or you can call it propaganda if you like.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasLastsPoliticalSidesVoiceNewsConservativeAdvertisingPropagandaAdsEstablishmentEchoesFoxesChamberSpectrumFox NewsVoice OverPolitical Spectrum Author:Bruce Bartlett
“The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.” PeopleKnowsMayOughtHolyNewsFunctionPressesForumsBreachBreach Of Trust Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryShowsEyeYoungWatchesKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingNewsEverydayMusicalReportsShock Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.” PeopleTheoryInternetNewsFoxesFox News Author:Bill Maher
“You think they could stop putting these experts on the news with their doomsday scenarios of how the terrorists might attack us? Because you get the sense they're coming up with ideas that these people haven't thought of themselves.” PeopleThinkingIdeasMightHavensNewsTerroristExpertsScenariosDoomsday Author:Greg Giraldo
“People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.” PeopleFeelsWritingCausesNewsNegativeSellsGood NewsTabloids Author:Michael Jackson
“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
“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
“It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.” PeopleFeelingsReadingPromiseNewsAnd LoveNew DayGreat Feelings Author:Bob Saget
“As I've submerged myself in news of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, I wanted desperately to feel part of what was going on. And then it hit me: This is what white people were doing to me after Obama was elected!” PeopleFeelsWantedWhiteMiddleRevolutionNewsEastMiddle EastSweepingSubmergedNorth Africa Author:Baratunde Thurston
“I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.” PeopleI CanCharacterEnergySeriousTypeNewsFocusedLawyerSillyNosesAnchorsNews Anchors Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news.” PeopleNeedsBelieveKindJesusMillionsHellTaughtMessagesNewsCaughtBe GoodPrimariesTrustedRescueGood News Author:Rob Bell
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.” PeopleThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolGuySawsFiguresStudentsAuthorityNewsGunMy FriendsKillingScaredEveningProtestCopSixteenFiringWashington DcAuthority FiguresSixteen Year Olds Author:Gus Van Sant
“The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.” PeopleKnowsWantTermMediaNewsReachingReach OutThievesHigh Places Author:Jim Hightower
“The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.” PeopleIfsEnoughProblemWould BeRichMediaPoliticianTaxesMessagesNewsCongressSolveBudgetsAppetiteComing OutRich PeopleInsultingLeftistsNews MediaRaising Taxes Author:Walter E. Williams
“As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.” PeopleWellsShowsFoundHappenedMediaPersonalityNewsInterviewsAmusing Author:Ben Stein
“Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.” PeopleWorldSometimesStoriesAsksNewsBiasFoxesOutletsFox News Author:Megyn Kelly
“Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.” PeopleMediaNewsIntentionOppressionAlsAl Qaeda Author:Mike Fitzpatrick
“Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.” PeopleStoriesUsePainLyingListeningNewsGood News Author:Karen Armstrong
“Earlier today, John McCain was in the news. John McCain gave his first press conference since the election. And he said, 'For a lot of people, Sarah Palin was an energizing factor during the campaign.' Unfortunately for McCain, those people are called Democrats.” PeopleFirstsSaidTodayNewsElectionPressesDemocratCampaignsFactorsConferencesMccainPalinPress ConferencesEnergizing Author:Conan O'Brien
“The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStillsForgetTroubleMediaFindingsNewsEverydayWarmHorribleGrantedExceptionFriendlyBad ThingsEveryday Life Author:Tom Bodett
“While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need gospel proclamation, for as much as people may see our good deeds, they cannot hear the good news unless we tell them. Social justice, though valuable as an expression of Christian love, should, especially as a churchwide endeavor, serve the goal of gospel proclamation.” PeopleNeedsShouldHeartMayChristianSocialGrowsGoalJusticeExpressionNewsSocial JusticeCommunicateDeedsValuableEndeavorGood NewsGood DeedsProclamationChristian Love Author:Darrin Patrick
“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
“We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.” PeopleHappensBreakNewsEarthquakes Author:Biz Stone
“I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.” PeopleIfsWayWritingMeanIdeasHouseSoundPiecesPaperNewsGasGreat Idea Author:Biz Stone
“Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."” PeopleKindSaidDifferentShowsAmericaInterestPathTvsBalanceNewsRoseRidiculousChecksSellingAdvertisingOperaDifferent KindsCigaretteSoapCivil SocietyBroadcastingSoap OperasRiggedQuizQuiz Show Author:Astra Taylor
“There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.” PeopleTryingIdeasStoriesCan DoShareNewsVideoEnthusiasmOnlineBedroomBlogsNews Stories Author:Astra Taylor
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“I want people to talk more. I mean, I watch Game of Thrones and there's all sorts of crazy nudity in it...and very little of which I can justify, except that it's in a titillating and somewhat exploitational manner, but I don't really feel like that's a subject that people are interested in because it's the same news story.” PeopleWantFeelsMeanLittlesI CanStoriesGamesWatchesCrazySubjectsNewsJustifyThronesNudityNews Stories Author:Craig Zobel
“I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.” PeopleLooksIdeasStoriesStrongVoiceHurtNewsSolutionsCoreCompellingEditingGood NewsUpbeatPeg Author:Ann Friedman
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.” PeopleWantLongPolicyTerribleNewsLong TimeAssumingAdministrationMotivatedDisagreeTerrible ThingsFunny ThingsGrindBad NewsTalk To MeAxes Author:Seymour Hersh
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantLooksUseTodayTermNaturalLinesNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyApproachNewsHollywoodAgingBottomLifestyleVersionsStayingMeaninglessBottom LineHealthy LifestyleOld News Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“This is the church's job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling, who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life. That's good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.” PeopleNeedsShouldBodyJobsChristChurchStruggleOffersNewsPursueWho We AreReach OutGood NewsWholeheartedlyBody Of Christ Author:Alan Chambers
“News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.” PeopleIfsStillsTermInterestingFictionDesignNewsMake Sense Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.” PeopleGuyStuffSeeingCrazyNewsPretendingGood GuyCrazy People Author:Casper Crump
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.” PeopleSaidCountryDreamHouseSpeakSocialJusticeSilenceCasesSeeingExampleDirectorsNewsSocial JusticeSilentMeritAgencyOfficialsInterviewsOnlineScarePublishingPublishersGallerySpeaks OutComplacentFree CountryOutreachPublishing House Author:Leila Fadel
“I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHeavenStuffListeningNewsDiscouraging Author:Stephen W. Thompson
“If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShowsLinesStruggleNewsCamerasEndlessChosen Author:Celeste Ng
“The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.” PeopleKnowsConversationNewsBrainwashed Author:Lissie
“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLooksImportantRememberWatchesInformationCollegeMaterialsInternetNewsLook UpGoogleWikipediaDownloadsWatch Movie Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.” PeopleHumansRealCharacterBodyLyingSufferingValuesTurnsLosesSimpleNumbersWatchesLaughingInformationMaterialsNewsWeightKillingSoldierHuman LifeThings To DoCool ThingsReal ValueKilling Each OtherVideogame Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.” PeopleIfsTodayNextForgetNewsForgottenNext Day Author:Erro