News
News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third-party or mass audience.
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Famous quotes containing the word news:
“When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, thats news. If they arent, thats news too.”
—Kenneth Rexroth (19051982)
“Word of gloom from the war, one day;
Johnston pressed at the front, they say.
Little Giffen was up and away;
A tearhis firstas he bade good-by,
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
Ill write, if spared! There was news of the fight;
But none of Giffen.He did not write.”
—Francis Orrery Ticknor (18221874)
“Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandatedserious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)