 I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Author: A. C. Benson
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| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch. Author: Aaron Brown
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| We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news. Author: Aaron Brown
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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. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. Author: Aaron McGruder
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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. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent. Author: Adam Arkin
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| Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. Author: Adam Clymer
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| I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. Author: Adam Faith
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| Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. Author: Adrienne Clarkson
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| False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill. Author: Aeschylus
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| In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat? Author: Al Yankovic
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| Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. Author: Alain de Botton
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| I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Author: Aleister Crowley
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| Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die. Author: Alex Chiu
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| It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now. Author: Alex Cox
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| America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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| It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. Author: Alexander Hamilton
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| I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section. Author: Allan Sloan
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| I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. Author: Alma Guillermoprieto
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| Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
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| But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. Author: Amos Oz
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| I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible. Author: Anderson Cooper
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| If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. Author: Andre Maurois
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| Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week. Author: Andrea Mitchell
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| Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers. Author: Andrew Card
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| You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate. Author: Andrew Card
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| There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. Author: Andrew Greeley
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| Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Author: Andy Rooney
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| I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Author: Aneurin Bevan
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| If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow. Author: Anna Held
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| Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Author: Anne Frank
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| The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. Author: Anne Sullivan
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| No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. Author: Annie Besant
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| When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. Author: Antonio Tabucchi
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| It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. Author: Archibald Alexander
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| There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. Author: Armstrong Williams
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| A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Author: Arthur Baer
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| News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. Author: Arthur Christiansen
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| You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. Author: Arthur Golden
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| News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. Author: Arthur H. Sulzberger
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| Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. Author: Arthur Machen
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| A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. Author: Arthur Miller
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| The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. Author: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
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| And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel. Author: Arthur Rock
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| Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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| In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. Author: Audrey Tautou
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| I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time. Author: Augusten Burroughs
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| I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. Author: Barbara Kruger
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| I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed. Author: Barbara Kruger
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| Maybe some of today's papers have too many "feel-good" features, but there is a lot of good news out there. Author: Ben Bradlee
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| The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists. Author: Ben Bradlee
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| There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate. Author: Ben Bradlee
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| Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. Author: Ben Hecht
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| Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills. Author: Benoit Mandelbrot
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| When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. Author: Bernard Baruch
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| The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone. Author: Bernard Goldberg
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| He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. Author: Bertolt Brecht
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| With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying. Author: Bette Davis
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| The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. Author: Bill Alexander
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| This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. Author: Bill O'Reilly
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| A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. Author: Bill Walsh
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| I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. Author: Billy Bob Thornton
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| Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. Author: Billy Sunday
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| Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. Author: Billy Sunday
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| Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. Author: Bob Considine
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| I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy. Author: Bob Edwards
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| In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. Author: Bob Edwards
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| That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. Author: Bob Edwards
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| The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off. Author: Bob Hope
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| The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. Author: Bob Schaffer
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| At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected. Author: Bob Woodward
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| If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources. Author: Bob Woodward
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| Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. Author: Bob Woodward
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| Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. Author: Bob Woodward
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| Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been. Author: Bobby Brown
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| When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death. Author: Boris Becker
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| I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. Author: Boss Tweed
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| It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest. Author: Branford Marsalis
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| I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. Author: Brit Hume
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| MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming. Author: Brit Hume
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| People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated. Author: Brit Hume
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| Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news. Author: Brit Hume
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