When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.
Christopher HitchensTag: media news baldness hitchens
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: news
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: psychology news
Why were you lurking under our window?"
"Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"
"Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
"Listening to the news! Again?"
"Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.
Tag: humor harry-potter sarcasm news dursley
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
William Randolph HearstTag: news misattributed-to-george-orwell public-relations
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
George SaundersTag: understanding media news information clarity debate
But if we define the Megaphone as the composite of the hundreds of voices we hear each day that come to us from people we don't know, via high-tech sources, it's clear that a significant and ascendant component of that voice has become bottom-dwelling, shrill, incurious, ranting, and agenda-driven. It strives to antagonize us, make us feel anxious, ineffective, and alone; convince us that the world is full of enemies and of people stupider and less agreeable than ourselves; is dedicated to the idea that, outside the sphere of our immediate experience, the world works in a different, more hostile, less knowable manner. This braindead tendency is viral and manifests intermittently; while it is the blood in the veins of some of our media figures, it flickers on and off in others.
George SaundersTag: media news information propaganda anxiety information-overload antagonism
Would you like to know your future?
If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.
So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
Tag: life future knowledge journey surprises news motivation survival mystery revelation tomorrow fortune expectations unknown surprise motive next survive motives unexpected advance coming expected fortell fortelling knowing-ahead precognition surprise-endings
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
Bruce SterlingTag: life politics truth news economy
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
Gwendolyn BrooksTag: cats news newspapers
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