news
n. The day to day reporting of nothing new.
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Cynical Quotations
Of what you see in books, believe 75%. Of newspapers, believe 25%. And of TV news, believe 10% – make that 5% if the anchorman wears a blazer.
— Unknown
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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
— Hodding Carter
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For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
— Gloria Borger
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
— A. J. Liebling
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
— Ben Hecht
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The one function 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.
— David Brinkley
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May you have the good fortune to die on a slow news day.
— Guy Smith
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