"If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news."
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"None love the messenger who brings bad news."
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"News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising."
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"I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news."
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"Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news."
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"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons."
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"Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed."
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"Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box."
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"The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam."
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"The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free."
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"News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it."
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"Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses."
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"Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message."
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"After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need."
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"[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them."
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"The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!"
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"All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news."
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"bad news travels faster than good."
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"We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media."
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"Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us."
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