You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.
The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
Television, radio, social media. The 247 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
[Donald Trump] puts a miner's hat on. The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet hair when he took the helmet off. They were hoping that he had so much hair spray on, that the miner's helmet he was wearing would leave an indentation in his hair. That was actually a subject in some of the stories I read. So the MacGuffin. . . There's no media. There isn't any news.
Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.
Evil news fly faster still than good.
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
I don't think anywhere you go to get news is news anymore. It is commentary, but mostly it is the advancement of agenda.
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
And some sad news. . . the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.
Hurricane Irene. . . the storm was huge news. In fact, the Weather Channel reported something they haven't seen in years. Viewers.
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?