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"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page." »Neil Postman
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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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"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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"For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news." »Gloria Borger
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"Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet." »Welsh Proverb
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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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"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath." »Dave Barry
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"Literature is news that stays news." »Ezra Pound
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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be How much you can love What you can accomplish And what your potential is" »Anne Frank
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"All television is children's television." »Richard P. Adler
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"In order to come out ahead, you have to constantly find good news because bad news is constantly trying to find you.
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"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news." »John B. Bogart
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"No news at 430 a.m. is good." »Lady Bird Johnson
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"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news." »Charles A. Dana
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"Nobody likes the man who brings bad news." »Sophocles
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"He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news." »Bertolt Brecht
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"Buy on the rumor sell on the news." »Wall Street Proverb
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"Buy on the rumor; sell on the news." »Wall Street Proverb
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"television is for appearing on - not for looking at." »Noel Coward
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"None love the messenger who brings bad news." »Sophocles
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"television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"television is chewing gum for the eyes." »Unknown
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"television is democracy at its ugliest." »Paddy Chayefsky
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"television: chewing gum for the eyes." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"television is a medium because anything well done is rare." »Fred Allen
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"television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other." »Ann Landers
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation." »Voltaire
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." »Henry Fielding
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"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." »A. J. Liebling
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