#news

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. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#behind #big #big story #business #context

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. ↗

— Halle Berry

#always #cheerleader #class #editor #had

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. ↗

— Annie Besant

#brought #ever #glad #good #good news

The sinews of war are infinite money. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#money #sinews #war

Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek ↗

— Norman Mailer

#time #time-magazine #death

Washington newspaper men know everything. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#know #men #newspaper #washington

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#born #conceived #day #dies #grows

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad news #bunch #competition #consumers

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry. ↗

— Harold Stephen Black

#answer #blank #blank page #conceived #daily