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“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.”

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Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

“Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.”

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.”

Needs Kind Different Shows News Tables Interviews Different Kinds Life Experience Different Life Interviewers News Channels

Author:George Stroumboulopoulos

“My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Breaking news is a thing that's on TV all day. 10 or 15 years ago, breaking news would get everybody around the table because it was going to be something huge.”

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Author:Bradley Cooper

“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.”

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Author:Rupert Murdoch

“Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't”

Ifs Made Said Father Heard Mom Genius Dad News Tables Genes Peter

Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead

“The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.”

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Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition