Alfred Harmsworth Quotes
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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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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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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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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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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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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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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We see it on the news all the time and wanted to see what it's all about.
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I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
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It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
