To mis-state or suppress the news is a breach of trust.
News Quotes
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.
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
I met a girl who sang the blues, And I asked her for some happy news; But she just smiled and turned away.
