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You know my temperature's risin', The juke box's blowin'a fuse, My heart's beatin'rhythm, My soul keeps a singin'the blues Roll over Beethoven, Tell Tchaikovsky the news.
La eternidad rotativa puede parecer atroz al espectador; es satisfactoria para sus individuos. Libres de malas noticias y de enfermedades, viven siempre como si fuera la primera vez, sin recordar las anteriores. A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, theyalways live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
The best way to get news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
For there isgood news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!
Half thetime when I seethe evening news,I wouldn't be for me, either.
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired thesunwithtalking and sent himdownthesky.
A master passion is the love of news.
Getthenews,get allthenews,andnothing butthenews.
The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.
It's like saying that the patient died but the good news is that he's eating less.
But years ago he had decided never to be afraid of the deafeningly obvious, it is always news to somebody.
Supposing the Press in order, the people in their right wits, and news or no news to be the question, a Public Mercury should not have my Vote, because I think it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not onlyan itch but a kind of colourable right to be meddling with the government.
The news of the dayas it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper isinall literalnessthebibleofdemocracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.
The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.
The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.
They died When time was open-eyed, Wooden and childish; only bones abide There, in the nowhere, where their boats were tossed Sky-high, where mariners had fabled news of IS, the whited monster.
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Any daily journalist will tell you that one of the most important secrets of his trade is the trick of making it appear that there is news when there is no news.
Literature is news that news.
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.
Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer newsit is what isgoing to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.
The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.
Thenewspaper is of necessitysomethingof a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of a monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of News. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of Truth suffer wrong.Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
Came through cold roads to as cold news.
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
It takes yourenemyand your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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