News

(338 votes)   None loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(133 votes)   News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(105 votes)   Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(88 votes)   The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

James Reston
1909-1995, Dutch Born American Journalist

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(77 votes)   News is the first rough draft of history.

Philip L. Graham

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(76 votes)   The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Carl Bernstein
1944-, American Journalist, writer

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(72 votes)   Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.

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(55 votes)   To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(44 votes)   Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens.

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(41 votes)   News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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