“I'm currently doing a Soul Pancake show called Top of the Monday, which is basically a good morning news show. It's just me being silly, telling people about good news that's going on in the world, putting them in the mood to start their week.” PeopleWorldSoulShowsMorningWeekNewsMoodSillyGood NewsMondayPancakesBeing Silly Author:Zach Anner
“Separation happens in so many different dimensions. We see it everywhere. I believe we are all part of the spiritual heart. We all come from that place of oneness, so that place in us that knows love, that knows connection, hurts. It's a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it's in the news and social media. It's in our families. There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBelieveWellsHeartDifferentHappensSpiritualPoliticalI BelieveSocialChallengesHurtReligiousOur LivesMediaNewsConnectionsSocial MediaSeparationOnenessOur FamilyDimensionsDivisionDifferent DimensionsPeople In Our Lives Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York/Boston/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.” PeopleCountryBigsUnderstandingMediaNew YorkNewsGapsBostonCorridorsNews Media Author:Rush Limbaugh
“No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.” PeopleTodayFacesThreeSimplePartyCoupleCostTaxesWasteMarriedNewsBiggerDenyArguingCelebrationGood NewsThree TimesBullsGetting MarriedMansionsTax SystemStraight FaceElkAntlers Author:Robert H. Frank
“Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.” PeopleSeemsHoursNaturalKnownPracticeTalentNewsPerformancesExtremesUpliftingDeliberateProdigiesWiringSavantsDeliberate Practice Author:Kevin Maney
“The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensRealityPoliticalHateTermWatchesExampleNewsHatredDemocraticCoreDefinedChiefsAdministrationExpertsResentmentStaffStereotypeFoxesFox NewsStrategistElitistDeputiesChief Of Staff Author:Sidney Blumenthal
“Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in government or government subsidies for our current food system that's a disaster and not sustainable? Yes. That would be really great, but a lot of that information unless you look for it, it's not available to you because that's not the discussion that's happening on mainstream news.” PeopleThinkingLooksGovernmentWould BeInfluenceInformationNewsHappeningsCurrentsAvailableDisasterCommitCorporateDiscussionMainstreamReally GreatAtrocitiesSubsidiesMonsanto Author:Ellen Page
“It's fine to deal with people's doubts and explain why they have good reasons to believe in Christ. But until we tell them the good news of Jesus Christ, we haven't done our job. They need a saviour that God has provided them in Christ. Once they know that, we can do as much apologetics as we need to.” PeopleKnowsNeedsBelieveReasonDoneJobsJesusChristCan DoDealsDoubtHavensFineNewsJesus ChristGood NewsSaviourApologetic Author:Mark Dever
“I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we've put in place worked better than people might think.” PeopleThinkingProblemMightNewsPracticalsProblem SolvingFoxesCaricaturesFox News Author:Barack Obama
“I have made you - along with Fox News has made you - think Obama is something that he isn't. And it's such a shame. I have so distorted who the real Obama is in your mind, that it is paralyzing our government. It is paralyzing the Speaker of the House, who really, really, really, really wants to go in there and really, really work with Obama, but he just can't. It's hard for people like Boehner to move too far in my direction because of the misperception of me, Obama says, created by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.” PeopleThinkingWantMindMadeRealHardGovernmentMovingHouseNewsShameSpeakersFoxesFox NewsMisperception Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The media has lost its monopoly. They have lost the opportunity they had to define what's news and what isn't news. They have lost the monopoly on telling people what to think, as in commentary and this kind of thing.” PeopleThinkingKindOpportunityLostMediaNewsMonopolyCommentary Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their news from Facebook recommendations and believe in a particular set of facts. Others, who live in a different reality, know quite a different set of facts.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveDifferentFactsRealityParticularTrumpNewsFunctionRecommendationsDifferent Realities Author:Anne Applebaum
“The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.” PeopleMayDifferentAbilityViewsSourceNewsUnbelievablePopulismDifferent Views Author:Ken Moelis
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.” PeopleThinkingLittlesFunStuffFeminismFootballSeriousNewsAbuseFaults Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.” PeopleIfsWayEndsInterestIssuesEnvironmentImpossibleConditionsSubjectsMediaStupidPolicyApproachNewsReactionsMake SenseKneesPrisonerInvitesMainstreamCablesJerkPublic PolicyMainstream MediaNews MediaCable NewsKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Rachel Maddow
“I called the fake news "the enemy of the people" - and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources, they just make them up when there are none.” PeopleEnemySourceNewsFake Author:Donald Trump
“When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.” PeopleShowsNewsAgreeFoxesFox News Author:Naomi Wolf
“While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.” PeopleTrumpNewsElectionFactorsVotersSuppressionHackingDemagogueryVoter Suppression Author:Riane Eisler
“I fell into TV quite by accident but once I was in a newsroom for the very first time, I was hooked because I loved the adrenaline. There was a breaking story that day and people were running around to get the news on the air. I thought, Jesus, how do you get to do this? So, that's how it started. The bulk of my career was in TV.” PeopleFirstsStoriesRunningJesusCareersAirTvsNewsFirst TimeAccidentsAdrenalineHooked Author:Gayle King
“For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantDifferentFactsMorningFireHappenedReadyBedNewsWake UpCelebrateOne WayGetting DressedReady To Leave Author:Gayle King
“People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsPainTogetherMotherAsksOpportunityGivenCreativeDramaNewsBlessedGoldenAsk MeOur TimeHeavenlyProtectedOur RelationshipAcheFamily DramaTime TogetherAches And PainsOur Time Together Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.” PeopleGivingBelieveCommunityMillionsTechnologyDoubtStreetsInformationChangedLike YouInternetEssentialsFindingsNewsEvolveDiscussionVisibleInsecurityNeighborhoodOnlineCrucialHopelessnessGiving InSpeaking Out Author:Nate Powell
“We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.” PeopleLongHas BeensBookNightSeeingEventsTelevisionNewsLong TimeScientistMajorityClimateExtremesConvincedWeatherRelatedRevelationsAddressesEvery NightTelevision NewsBook Of RevelationExtreme Weather Author:Al Gore
“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
“There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens to be cloaked in religion, but these are people saying enough is enough. It's happened again and again through history. The good news is that modernism has always won.” PeopleLooksReasonEnoughHappensHappenedNewsScaredReactionsAgain And AgainFundamentalismGood NewsModernityModernismEnough Is Enough Author:Paul Saffo
“I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsPersonsWould BeRememberBornProudNewsParisRemember WhenFirst PersonLanding Author:Josephine Baker
“If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.” PeopleIfsWayYearsHas BeensCountryStatesMightPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesNewsYears AgoOrganizationImpactDebateMainstreamSkepticalVigilantForeign CountriesPolitical Debates Author:Barack Obama
“First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsHumansStuffSeeingNewsNegativePressesPhonesCellsConcertsReally GreatHuman ExperienceCell PhoneGreat Experiences Author:Mike Dirnt
“This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that to make his claim that information is fake news. And there are people who think 'I guess we should believe the President when he says it's fake news.'” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveHumansUseEasyPresidentExistenceInformationTrumpNewsClaimsErasFakeHuman Existence Author:Greg Graffin
“That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation to; the things that impact me most are things written by people closer to my age. And I wanted to write things in a way where somebody my age could read it and feel like they are holding somebody's hand and be with somebody.” PeopleWayFeelsWritingHandsAgeWantedWrittenNewsRelationImpactArticlesOlder People Author:Rowan Blanchard
“I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.” PeopleWantWishHoursSupportMediaInternetNewsShameDiscourseWorldviewFragmentedNews Media Author:Jim James
“We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsFeelsPersonsStillsIdeasMatterTalkingWatchesHappenedTvsNewsConnectionsComplexesSaintCommunicateFascinatingPrimitiveStorytellerInterfacesTalking Heads Author:Vik Muniz
“I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You couldn't quite figure out what was going on. And then, the people would very often do what they call speaking in tongues and I didn't know what they were saying. My father used to always say that if it can't be understood, then it's not the good news or not the gospel.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsUsedFatherChurchHeardFiguresNewsUnderstoodTraditionCriticismTongueMy SisterGood NewsPentecostalSpeaking In Tongues Author:David C. Driskell
“The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.” PeopleWantNeedsWellsRealAudienceStruggleBuildingNewsWeaknessReactionsViewersCablesFast PacedReactingStripesUnsureBuilding SomethingBreaking NewsCable News Author:Ali Velshi
“I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.” PeopleCertainTelevisionTvsIndustryNewsPressureCarefulAspireTelevision News Author:Ali Velshi
“People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.” PeopleWayWantDifferentStoriesGivenHappenedNewsDebateDifferent WaysOutletsAvenuesNews Stories Author:Jim Lehrer
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” PeoplePoliticalMediaNewsPressesNewspapersJournalismPropagandaNews MediaNewspapers JournalismNewspaper ReportersMedia PropagandaReading NewspapersPrint Media Author:A. J. Liebling
“The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.” PeopleSocialMediaNewsScarySocial Media Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.” PeoplePartyMediaTelevisionMembersNewsDemocratNewspapersBunchRankingNews Media Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.” PeopleNewsBad PeopleBad News Author:Javier Bardem
“I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.” PeopleIfsWayI CanWholeTurnsNewsTablesGet UpRestaurantsFoxesFox News Author:Rupert Murdoch
“Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.” PeoplePersonsLongDifferentHardWould BeIndividualLostMysteryNewsRaisedErasTwinsDifferent PeoplesIdenticalDifferent ErasIdentical TwinUnsolved Mysteries Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.” PeopleWayCountryAmericaPiecesMiddleNewsIsraelEastThanksOppositionAlliesMiddle EastThank YouCoalitionsSaying Thank You Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.” PeopleNeedsStatesHelpingPresidentCommunityNewsNeighborTexasDeclarationEmergenciesPresident BushWildfiresGreat News Author:Randy Neugebauer
“When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.” PeopleWorldLittlesBigsKidsStuffPiecesNewsWoundsAround The WorldCustomsSaltFlewRippedAeroplanesBig News Author:Gary Numan
“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.” PeopleLooksMomentsHelpingStoriesMightInterestShareNewsInsightRecognitionReportsSparksGardeningViewersHelping PeopleHindsightTelling StoriesNbcInterpersonalNbc News Author:Jane Pauley
“I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHas BeensCountryStoriesEvilAmountNewsGood And EvilOther CountriesOpen MindedStarksNews Stories Author:Marjane Satrapi
“The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.” PeopleLiteratureFireNewsDiedHotelGood NewsHospitalityExclusiveBad NewsGood News And Bad News Author:Jessica Savitch