#news

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#attention #channel #community #conservatives #decades

All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#life

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#curiosity #disappointment #down #ever #excite

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#journalists #media #newspapers #love

That could be a very sexy story. ↗

— LynDee Walker

#humor #mystery #news #reporter #women

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#british #humor #humor

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#local-news #ray-bradbury #television #censorship

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

#truth #journalism

Newspapers represent everything that is wrong with the world, in a slant that is too accurate, on print that is too high-grade. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #newspapers #representation #funny