News Quotes
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Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?
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I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.
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I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.
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I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
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The 'Evening News' is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition.
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I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
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If you don't read news.groups, the net appears to be a rather tranquil place.
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News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.
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Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq.
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The nature of bad news affects the teller.
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We report the news. Fox talks about the news.
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The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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I heard the news today, oh boy.
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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.
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I'm done with the shows about "women got murdered by husband." My wife watches them constantly, but it makes me want to kill myself. They serve no purpose. They're not news shows. They just exploit all of these murder victims.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.
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Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
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There's villainous news abroad.
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I fall apart. It's hard. The hardest part is hearing it on the news and then we have to wait.
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Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
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I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
