“Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.” RunningEventsShapesNewsObvious Author:Walter Lippmann
“The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.” MenBodyRealitySocialConditionsEventsTruth IsShapesNewsFunctionSocial Conditions Author:Walter Lippmann
“We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.” PeopleRealShapesNewsShadowCastsCyclesDirt Author:Stephen Colbert
“I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.” WayRealStoriesHappensCertainOpinionShapesNewsBeing RealTexture Author:Colum McCann
“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
“It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...” IfsFeelsBelieveChildrenMovingBlackChanceWhiteForeverSkyReturnShapesNewsSurpriseBlack And WhiteRainbowCurvesSecond ChanceReservedBad NewsLatentNo Second ChancesParabola Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.” PeopleWritingLittlesSometimesLightFallNextRealizingWatchesSawsTeacherMiddleTearsHairShapesLateNewsHappeningsIncludingLegsAdmireFlamesToo LateFavouriteHomelessSoupDiariesSceneryHomeless People Author:Joe Dunthorne
“Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in” NeedsTryingSinTeachMorningLike YouShapesNewsOriginalsPitySinnerSpokesOriginal Sin Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.” KnowsHeartSaidSoulBreakFineMy HeartShapesNewsMy SoulBreaking My HeartAk 47 Book:How to Kill a Rock Star Source: How to Kill a Rock Star