The technology of nonstop news and the Internet means that allegations that would have been carefully checked out a generation ago no longer are. We now have a 24-hour-a-day news cycle. News gets used up very quickly and there's a constant hunger for new tidbits.
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Related It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of ... KAREN HANDEL Because of 24-hour cable news and online news, the campaigns are played out in real time. DOUG HATTAWAY It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It h... MALCOLM TURNBULL Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the... STEVE ERICKSON If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday... MATT DRUDGE Murrow would be delighted that there are 24-hour news channels, but disappointed that during prime t... BOB EDWARDS [As a result, the relevance of the main 24-hour news broadcasters has never been higher. Unprecedent... CHRIS CRAMER The market was subject to a very normal pause to refresh. Why not ? Bonds have been up big. The mark... AL GOLDMAN Stocks have priced in a lot of good news right now and you're seeing that in effect. Good news is ba... PETER GREEN There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good... UNKNOWN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on th... THOMAS SADOSKI [James Packer said this week that new technology had made the newspaper game] very scary ... Newspap... DAVID KIRK I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can al... GEORGE H. W. BUSH (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news ... RACHEL SKLAR The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We actually put out three times as many news releases as our peer institutions. But it also suggests... JOEL SELIGMAN It's kind of the good news, bad news thing. The good news is it's very popular. And the bad news is ... GARY GENTRY When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in... DICK GREGORY The good news, of course, is that we are in a break right now. The bad news is that it ends tomorrow... ELIZABETH MORSE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour n... ADAM MCKAY What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA You always are a little edgy on travel day. It's kind of a no-news-is-good-news situation. ED GOBLE I think Richard would have been a very good commissioner, so I hate to see that have to happen. But ... GARY COMPTON The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's... PETER MCWILLIAMS I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We need to create a different kind of online news operation, one that recognizes the changing expect... JOEL SAPPELL A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The good news is people are living longer, and the bad news is people are living longer. CHARLES HAMOWY [One positive is that] there's very little news that could make psychology much worse, and you'll ju... ARNIE BERMAN There are challenges here. The good news is that we now have a system to identify them. GOV. DONALD CARCIERI I've seen lots of good stuff that Soldiers have done that never gets reported, ... Soldiers and Mari... WILLIAM BENSON Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling t... JACK ABLIN There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and w... REBECCA MACKINNON Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of... NEIL POSTMAN The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today's a new day. O... STEVE MARABOLI That's how it's been for us. It's been unbelievable. We've literally won and lost for 19 straight ga... BRAD SODERBERG One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired ... LYNSEY ADDARIO The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the oppo... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN News, news, news-that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN The good news is that we have a vaccine that can induce an immune response. But the sobering news is... ANTHONY S. FAUCI We've heard the bad news. Now we have to hear the good news. IRA ZUCKERMAN News, news, news, my gossiping friends,
I have wonderful news to tell,
A lady by me her compli... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and ... DREW CURTIS No bad news is good news. These are reasonably solid results for a company that's had bad news in th... CHAD HERSH Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now ... DAVID LETTERMAN The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the med... PETER MCWILLIAMS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. ... DAVID LETTERMAN Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings... DANIEL HANNAN The State Journal still has the broadest local reach of any local media, and it remains a great vehi... ELLEN FOLEY If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever. DAVID MUIR We're awaiting a news conference at the bottom of the hour. New York City Police- CHRIS MATTHEWS Up until now it's been a make shift setting but this a real set that's been used in a real TV news s... DR. LINWOOD HAGIN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our ... JOSEPH PRINCE While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summar... CHRIS HADFIELD It used to be that a company could hide an oil spill in a distant land. Now the media and activists ... JANE NELSON My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down'... SALLY PHILLIPS The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody g... JEH JOHNSON The church as a whole has come to the revelation that the old ways of trying to get the gospel out d... JANICE KING False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news ADRIENNE RICH False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ADRIENNE RICH I think we're getting mixed messages. Good news one day, mediocre news the next, and bad news after ... BILL BURKE Next week we have a raft of earnings in the tech sector, with STM, Philips and Nokia. We have got to... ROBERT KERR We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the momen... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We're not talking about a news show, so I think there's a bit of a difference. I think news talks ab... PETER LIGUORI The media have a widely-held agenda (that doesn't include support of President Bush) and they are no... JERRY FALWELL That was a very interesting race and it is obviously good news to have scored our first point of the... RALF SCHUMACHER One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news director... JESSICA SAVITCH Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier ... STEVEN ANDERSON One wonderful thing is, we have a totally unique technology. But that's also the bad news. We have t... MALCOLM THOMPSON Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering ... NICHOLAS KRISTOF I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL News classifications up to now typically consisted of about 12 terms, like sport, world news, financ... DR ANSGAR BERNARDI I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not ver... DIANE SAWYER Investors have gotten used to Apple being out of stock on some of their hottest products. Now they h... BILL FEARNLEY We want to do an appropriate amount of coverage. The story affects everybody at ABC. We have a job t... JEFFREY SCHNEIDER Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a sp... JAMES TAYLOR Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news ... DAVID MUIR It's great news for both of them. It would have been a disaster for the Navy to try to make a change... JULIE GIERA We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman. SHEPARD SMITH My father, who has become too deaf to listen to reason, bores us with news of the weather. We have l... MAVIS GALLANT For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. GLORIA BORGER in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN Ordinarily it would have been surprising that consumer sentiment did not increase for a fourth conse... BILL EVANS News directors are first and foremost looking for news, ... So if you look at the recent cases that ... ERNIE ALLEN There is good news and bad news. We are trying to dig out a woman. We hope she is still alive. MARKUS RIEDER The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recogn... EZRA KLEIN We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines w... CARLISLE FLOYD
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