Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, “What’s the news?” as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half-hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what […]
News Quotes
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter – we need never read of another. […]
To mis-state or suppress the news is a breach of trust.
It has been my experience that what most viewers and readers are most unhappy about is not that journalists slant the news, but that we don’t slant it their way.
Remember, you only have that space because some advertiser wouldn’t buy it.
These are the big media hogs: there’s NBC, owned by GE; ABC, a product of Disneyworld; CBS, part of the Viacom conglomerate; CNN, from the AOL Time Warner herd; and Fox, spawned by Rupert Murdoch’s British-based empire. These global giants dominate America’s airwaves, meaning they already hog the newsfeed that we get in our supposedly-democratic […]
For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
If you depend on the news for your worldview, friends, you’re in a sad place.
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.
