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Letter "N" » newspapers
«NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?'»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Comedy,
Politics
| Keywords:
administration, American government, approved, bush, Bush Administration, George, George W. Bush, George W, newspapers, New American, publish, schools, school teacher, September, shown, The Children, The New American, unpopular
«My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.»
Author: Dolly Parton
(Actress, Singer)
| Keywords:
aunt, aunts, Knoxville, newspapers, toilet, toilet paper
«I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(General)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
field of battle, newspapers, The Field
«In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.»
«Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
journalism, mainly, newspapers, One World
«Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization,
Newspapers
| Keywords:
accident, bicycle, Bicycles, civilization, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, newspapers, seemingly, unable
«I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Education,
Television
| Keywords:
America, educate, intellectual, minutes, Monday, Mondays, newspapers, started, stuff, television
«My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
attracting, newspapers, notice, performance, strict
«I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it»
«I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.»
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