Stephen Kinzer Quotes
My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.
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If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
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Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
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The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
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I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.
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My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.
