“The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.” PolicyNewsHighestEmptyManagementJournalismVainReasoningConjecture Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.” MindVoiceMillionsDoubtMiddlePolicyNewsRaisesRaisedOfficialsEyebrowsRemarksVeracityPublic OfficialsCausticRaised Eyebrows Author:Spiro T. Agnew
“There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.” WantYearsRealityMightValuesPoliticsIndividualSoundCommunityJusticeViolencePolicyNewsEthicsHuman RightsHearingTerrorismIdeologyTapeFree SpeechThrillCivilityAudioGunshots Author:Rachel Maddow
“If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.” PeopleIfsHappensImagineWorstHonestyPolicyEasierAnxietyNewsDisappointmentHonestlyMoodHandleUncertaintyAnxiousGood NewsVacuums Author:Judith M Bardwick
“The good news is, we have a huge opportunity here because the President`s [Barack Obama] policies have failed.” OpportunityPresidentPolicyHugeNewsBarackGood News Author:Jeb Bush
“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
“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
“Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.” IfsWorldEnoughWould BeMovingImaginePolicyTrumpNewsElectionInternationalFoolishIslamicImagine ThatPledgeBad NewsJerusalemProvocationEmbassy Author:Richard A. Falk
“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