"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"

Bentley, E. C. · News · 0 fans >>
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"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."

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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

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"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news."

Disraeli, Benjamin · News · 1 fans >>
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"News is the first rough draft of history."

Graham, Philip L. · News · 0 fans >>
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"No news is good news."

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"News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clich?s walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off."

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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."

Kundera, Milan · News · 0 fans >>
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"I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."

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"Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type."

O'Rourke, P. J. · News · 1 fans >>
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