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"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"
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"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."
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"As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
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"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."
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"Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?"
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"Stay a little and news will find you."
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"What, what, what, What's the news from Sway? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable; led Through the Indian Ocean's bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Med."
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"News is the first rough draft of history."
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"Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace."
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"He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?"
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"News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off."
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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
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"News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell, A lady by me her compliments sends; And this is the news from Hell!"
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"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true."
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"I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."
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"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."
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"Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good Walks on crutches."
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"For evil news rides post, while good news baits."
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