News Reporting Quotes

• The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving heart, her beautiful voice, her activism, her writings, her news reporting, her other works, her magic, her bright spirit.

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  Selena Fox

  Beautiful   Writing   Heart  

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• Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

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  Craig Newmark

  Jobs   Ideas   News  

  "An Observation Regarding Fact-checking and Journalism From an Outsider" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

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  Jens Lekman

  Song   Writing   Insignificant Things  

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

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  Chelsea Manning

  Self   News   Landscape  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

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  Thomas Sowell

  News Stories   Self   Views  

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• News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

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  Jessica Savitch

  Successful   News   Literature  

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

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  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fall   Heaven   Thank God  

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.66, Penguin

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• Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.

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  Rodney A. Smolla

  Political   Junk   News  

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• The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

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  Steven Novella

  Pain   News   Injury  

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• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

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  Bill O'Reilly

  America   Views   Today  

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