“The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.” PeopleWarDoneReadingKnownMediaTelevisionSceneNewsWesternPrisonerCheerConventionsVeilsAlliancesTalibanBeing DoneBreachKabulWestern Media Author:Tariq Ali
“Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWholeUsedLiteratureOpinionAudienceCollegeAmountHigherNewsBiggerEnormousUsed To BeConsumersPrintDiverseHigher Education Author:Louis Menand
“When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.” PeopleAmericaSportsTeamGrewGrew UpNewsWeatherRooted Author:Lori Lansens
“I think people are attracted to The Huffington Post's blend of up-to-the-second news and thoughtful opinion, delivered with an attitude. Plus, I think they enjoy that we cover so many different things - from politics and entertainment to style and satire. There is always something interesting to read and think about - and even to laugh at.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEnjoyInterestingAttitudeOpinionLaughingStyleNewsEntertainmentPostsThoughtfulDifferent ThingsSatirePlusSomething Interesting Author:Arianna Huffington
“Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.” PeopleWorldWantStatesStoriesUseAgeAbleFormUsedCommunityMiddleChangedIndustryHabitNewsAccessNewspapersGoldenDespiteAround The WorldConsumersReportsCommentEnginesSurfGolden AgeSearch Engine Author:Arianna Huffington
“Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They're always gonna be rich.” PeopleGivingRichFiguresPolicyNewsPicksLet MeRich PeopleCubaBad NewsVenezuela Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.” PeopleHappensCitizensNewsPressesConsumersProgramming Author:David Folkenflik
“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
“The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.” PeopleMadeCareYoungFallEnvironmentYouthNewsAdultsBurdenMessRecognizingGreat News Author:Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
“[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.” PeopleKnowsWorldFatherNewsStoresNewspapersReports Author:Jeff Sessions
“I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.” PeopleThinkingFactsHalfGoes OnTrumpNewsConservativeFoxesFox News Author:Erick Erickson
“I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.” PeopleKnowsMediaProductsNewsInterviewsAdvise Author:Roger Ailes
“For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLittlesLongHappensUsedBlackPiecesMediaStupidColorLike YouPeriodsNewsMassHip HopPopsRapTricksHipsHopsCoveredBlack PeopleCrapBad NewsLong Periods Of TimeRap Music Author:Chuck D
“The good news is we are seeing an incredible surge in non-animal technologies in laboratories. With researchers using stem cells, visually impaired people may one day have new corneas and lenses grown from their own cells. That is likely to be a more effective and cheaper approach than using animals.” PeopleMayAnimalTechnologySeeingOne DayApproachNewsIncrediblesCellsStemGood NewsLensesLaboratoryCheaperResearchersStem Cell Author:Wayne Pacelle
“In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.” PeopleAmericaGivenTakenSawsDangerousPositionStrangeNewsHappeningsScaryOnlineJust BeingDangerous PlacesReally ScaryStrange Places Author:Trevor Noah
“What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.” PeopleWellsNews Author:Diana L. Eck
“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence of the highest order. It would be like if you were walking down the street and a house was on fire and you heard screams coming from inside and you just kept walking. How irresponsible is that? At the very least, call 911 but better yet, you might run in and try to save the people.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMightWould BeRunningOrderHouseFireHeardStreetsWalkingMessagesNewsHighestScreamGood NewsIrresponsibleNegligence Author:Greg Laurie
“Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsHelpingProblemGoalSituationSuccessfulInformationNeededCircumstancesNewsBlameFocusedGossipSuccessful PeopleUnsuccessful Author:Darren Hardy
“I'm very always saddened by the fact that people aren't buying newspapers. They may be reading the news online, but the depth, width, breadth of what we really need to understand in the world, to be informed and engaged, I think that's sometimes challenged.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMaySometimesFactsReadingNewsDepthNewspapersEngagedBuyingOnlineBreadthSaddenedWidth Author:Kathy Eldon
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” PeopleKnowsTwoWarHomeLyingNightCoursesHouseLeftBlackCommunityWhiteLeaderEnemyBreakDrugNewsMeetingsCampaignsEveningIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleAntiwarMarijuanaAssociatesHippieHeroinVilify Author:John Ehrlichman
“The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news.” PeopleMatterKidsSidesBlackSubjectsDrugNewsShotsPoliceAssociatesSubject MatterDealerBlacknessDrug Dealers Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.” PeopleWellsStillsDifferentMediaNewsChinaMoodChineseGood NewsPublishBad NewsUpbeat Author:Freeman Dyson
“We need to hold onto that so that people can be told in the right way that they're going through these things [like tumors] early instead of discovering them late. Discovering important health news too late happens far too much.” PeopleWayNeedsImportantHappensToo MuchLateNewsToo LateDiscoveringRight WayTumors Author:John Newman
“There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.” PeopleRealTodaySpiritualSongCultureChurchMessagesNewsSingingProgramHungerSeekingOfferingPreachingGood NewsBad NewsSinging Songs Author:John C. Maxwell
“With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.” PeopleThinkingStillsShowsRealityWould BeFrontsNewsPagesReality Shows Author:Brian McGinn
“People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.” PeopleViewsExerciseJudgmentNewsOrganizationIndependentPoint Of View Author:David Folkenflik
“A lot of the reason why the debate is acrimonious is because of the 24/7 news cycles, blogs, and people being able to just throw something out there in order to get attention. And I'm not going be out there doing the same thing, trying to trash my successor or call attention to myself. I hope that's a positive contribution to the dialogue.” PeopleTryingReasonAbleOrderAttentionNewsDebateDialogueReason WhyContributionCyclesTrashBlogsSuccessors Author:George W. Bush
“When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.” PeopleMadeStoriesDrinkNewsNews Stories Author:Lizz Winstead
“I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the online side and people who had been there forever. There was one journalist who had running shoes under her desk in case she had to kick of her heels and go out and cover a breaking news story.” PeopleHardStoriesRunningYoungSidesCasesForeverHard WorkMetsNewsShoesJournalistKicksOnlineHeelsDesksBoth SidesEnthusiasticNews StoriesBreaking NewsRunning Shoes Author:Rachel McAdams
“I really enjoy delivering life-changing news to people who really deserve it.” PeopleEnjoyNewsDeserveLife ChangingDelivering Author:Jeff Brazier
“[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.” PeopleWantMadeKidsYoungHouseRealizingMistakeMomNewsMade A Mistake Author:Paula Broadwell
“The Fox News anchors are lovely. They have an incredible combination of brains and beauty. And I think that's one of the reasons people love watching them and listening to them.” PeopleThinkingReasonBrainListeningNewsIncrediblesLovelyCombinationFoxesAnchorsFox NewsBeauty And BrainsNews Anchors Author:Megyn Kelly
“My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.” PeopleHeartPersonsMomentsStoriesFeelingsHomeBigsJobsMorningChangedNewsLosingNegativeStartingOptimisticSavingHeightHopelessRetirementUsualLightningHelplessSavingsRecessionsBoltsHeart WrenchingLightning BoltsOptimistic PersonAha Moment Author:Michelle Gielan
“I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.” PeopleWayBelieveChallengesNewsOvercomingI RealizedEmpoweredBetter Ways Author:Michelle Gielan
“All the media is anymore is the Democrat Party's agenda, the Democrat Party's political desires and objectives presented as "the news" and also presented as popularly supported by the American people.” PeoplePoliticalDesirePartyMediaNewsDemocratObjectivesAgendas Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.” PeopleStoriesHandsNewsPressesCriticsNarrativeFakeNews Stories Author:Joe Scarborough
“The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.” PeopleThinkingHardYoungDemocracyHard WorkInvolvedNewsOrganizationCampaignsGood NewsNonprofits Author:Barack Obama
“The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.” PeopleIfsCoursesLeftMillionsNewsWingsAddVideoPostsQueensReportsGossipSitePublicationKittenLeft WingAdorableSoundtracksBloggersCelebrity Gossip Author:Bill Keller
“Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.” PeopleCoursesStuffMediaLike YouTrumpNews Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.” PeopleKnowsNeedsRealComfortableNewsConsuming Author:Susan Rice
“The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.” PeopleThinkingTogetherCultureSpeakGroupsNewsActiveResistanceVisibleSensibilityGreat News Author:Tilda Swinton
“That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensFactsHandsLostGrowsPresidentLinesAcceptingStepsGrowing UpNewsElectionIncludingBarackPreparingOutrageTransfersGlovesStep UpPresident Barack ObamaOld News Author:John Lewis
“I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.” PeopleLongStillsStatesEnoughLeftChurchPoorPartyWatchesStreetsWallNewsCapitalismStandingMovedUnionsEverydayCastsEntertainmentShipsWitnessTriumphCorporatePoor PeopleChurch And StateFashionablePiratePredatorOverboardStanding StillZealotCroniesCouplingSycophantsCrony Capitalism Author:Bill Moyers
“Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.” PeopleKnowsWorldWatchesNewsHappeningsTapeJunkieBreadth Author:Lorna Luft
“So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.” PeopleLongPresidentPowerfulPayModernAchieveTrumpNewsAdvertisingErasFoxesCablesFox NewsUnheard Author:David Frum
“[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.” PeopleMadeTwoPartyNewsNegativeInstitutionsRadioAdvertisingPresidentialFakeCandidatesCynicismSelectedPresidential CandidateTalk Radio Author:Barack Obama
“I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect. And since when I have been attacked I have usually been defended by the black community, I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked, if I was defended they simply said I had been defended. But I don't think they have taken any effort at maligning me or maligning gays or making any effort to give to people anything that wasn't news.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingHas BeensSaidBlackCommunityEffortTakenFitGayNewsAspectNewspapersBlack CommunitySimply Said Author:Bayard Rustin
“I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsKindLeftPartyStepsProductsSourceRepublicanNewsValuableContemporaryMainstreamRepublican PartyAffirmingReassuringInsurgencyContemporary Society Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“We've got a poll out there saying that Obamacare has never been more popular? Well, maybe it's people like at 25% and it's only gotten to 23% before, who knows, but the headline is so misleading, it's fake news. And that's gonna continue.” PeopleKnowsWellsNewsFakePollsMisleadObamacareHeadlines Author:Rush Limbaugh