535 Quotes About News

People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we are apt to forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago, and to be blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out.

Our understanding of what is really 'newsworthy' is a misunderstanding.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

For every lunatic who takes up a gun and starts shooting people, there are billions of other people who don’t, but we never hear about them. The reality is, our human experience, from a statistical point of view, is almost entirely peaceful.

The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.

The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer.

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way.

The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they thought people wanted to see, and they had no explanation to give. It wasn't the king they saw. That wasn't the king at all. It was the king's shadow.

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV