“When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.” YearsTwoThreeFourTelevisionYears AgoSevenNewspapersStationsDozenGlobesBoston Author:Will McDonough
“It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.” WayYearsCertainGrowsWonderfulRiskInformationInternetAdvantageYears AgoEconomicsThreatNewspapersMediumsCertaintyAlternativesFabulousDominance Author:Charlie Munger
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.” YearsEyePartyKnownFocusFeetPoliticianPaperYears AgoShoesConservativeNewspapersPairsPrintHeelsPapersConferencesKittenLeopardsConservative PartyLeopard Print Author:Theresa May
“My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.” YearsNovelRedYears AgoNewspapersArticlesHook Author:Ayelet Waldman