“In these home affairs things I think occasionally it's the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers and say 'you have your facts wrong and you're whipping up facts which are inaccurate” ThinkingFactsHomeTurnsSidesDutyPoliticianWingsRoundsAffairNewspapersBoth SidesRight WingTabloidsWhipping Author:Kenneth Clarke
“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.” Has BeensTurnsRocksMiseryVicesNewspapersBurningFollyWarningMultitudesBeaconsAdmonition Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne
“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.” IfsMenShouldBookUseRememberTurnsEvilSocialPracticeEvery ManNewspapersMagazinesSpeakersTruthfulPlatformsExposureRelentlessSocial LifeHailSeverityBenefactors Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.” KnowsWorldMayWarSoulMomentsTurnsGirlReadingFatherForgetDestinyGrowingGenerationsMankindMovementSonTerribleHusbandArmyNewspapersVanityCivil WarGreyLimbsNeglectedCorpsesClashEarthquakesUrgencyShatteredBloomingAloofInvadingBandages Book:Daniel Deronda Source: Daniel Deronda
“Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.” ThinkingShouldWritingMindSometimesTurnsReaderDegreesValuableNewspapersEditorsReportersMake You HappyTickColumnists Author:Michael Wilbon
“When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.” MindBookIdeasSeemsTurnsWonderfulSubjectsConversationExtraordinaryNewspapersPursueCoincidenceFrequency Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825 Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825