#news

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#crazy #device #ignorant #making #more

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#carolina #country #cover #difficult #general

Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#bad #canada #constantly #course #fairly

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#canada #cultural #following #grow #grow up

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#i #itself #nation #newspaper #suppose

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. ↗

— Frank Miller

#everyone #facts #forth #frame #i

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars. ↗

— George Miller

#dollars #had #idea #local #looking

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bludgeon #digests #facts #magazines #newspapers

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. ↗

— Heather Mills

#being #celebrity #celebrity culture #children #culture

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accessible #africa #educate #magazines #media