“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.” MenWorldArtPhilosophyStoriesChristianEnergyLanguageStarsAnimalMankindWallFitNewsRelationConstantMythCirclesGreekIntimateReportsCompanionBelongingCavesDnaAcquaintanceRumorEgyptianSpeechlessReligion ChristianPrehistoricZodiacNews StoriesHindu ReligionGreek PhilosophyChristian Art Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!” PeopleKnowsMindFirstsWellsBigsStreetsCarWallIndustryNewsWorkersJewKeep GoingCeoBankingGangDealerCar Dealer Author:Glenn Beck
“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.” ThinkingKnowsWellsEndsStoriesHomeAmericaCultureNovelStreetsFashionWallTruth IsNewsWho I AmMagazinesWho We AreThe End Of The DayJournalPopular CultureStock ExchangeWall Street JournalFashion Magazines Author:Chris Abani
“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.” PersonsHas BeensMatterStoriesStreetsNew YorkWallNewsDetermineAvailableEveningPostsJournalHandfulNew York TimesNews StoriesWall Street Journal Author:Walter Cronkite
“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.” DoeHas BeensFactsBodyChristianJesusCasesDoorsWallWorshipNewsEmptyGlassesGloriousPrintThank GodTombsJerusalemTabloidsNazareth Author:Peter Marshall
“But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.” PeoplePoliticalGroupsEconomicStreetsWallNewsCodeThroatGood NewsCountrysideExclusionZips Author:Jim Hightower
“In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.” StoriesShowsWould BeMoralStreetsFashionFrontsNew YorkWallNewsPagesPostsTargetCablesNew York TimesIndignationLeftistsAnticsCable NewsMoral Indignation Author:Jamie Glazov
“I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.” ThinkingIdeasEndsSometimesValuesMy OwnStreetsWallNewsNosesFundDead Ends Author:Michael Burry
“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'” IfsKnowsWantFourHeardStreetsWallNewsCampaignsFarmersBetter OffSlogans Author:Bill Maher
“My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.” StatesMagicStreetsWallGoodnessNewsClintonSwingsJournalPollsNbcWall Street JournalNbc News Author:Anderson Cooper
“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.” KnowsTwoCoursesStreetsWallMonthsNewsPressesOilNewspapersReportsArticlesMainstreamJournalMarineLandingHaitiTwo MonthsPetroleumWall Street Journal Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.” PoliticalSocialStreetsMediaWallNewsSpringBusySocial MediaDrivingJapanCalendarsAftermathTsunamiArab SpringOccupy Wall StreetCairo Author:Dan Rather
“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.” IfsTwoAsksWinningLosesPoorLaughingMysteryWallPrayingBlessingMoonNewsBirdFlowDown AndCourtPrisonTalesTheeAsk MeButterflyPacksCagesSpySectsGreat OnesRoguesEbb And FlowGildedCordelia Author:William Shakespeare