“The piece was opinion, the news was fact captured on film.”
Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit
Twitter post https://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/1159984641962631170 (9 August 2019) <br class="br">2010s, 2019
“It is not an event, it is a piece of news.”
Ce n'est pas un événement, c'est une nouvelle.
On hearing of Napoleon's death; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
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Context: I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.
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Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
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“Events enlarged his embrace to a wholly new idea of nation — the United States of America.”
Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist
"At Large", speech at the Peace Corps twenty-fifth anniversary memorial service (21 September 1986), published in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 26
Context: nowiki>[George Washington] in uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life — one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. Events enlarged his embrace to a wholly new idea of nation — the United States of America. But less than a century later his descendant by marriage could not slip the more parochial tether. In the halls of the family home standing on the hill above us, General Robert E. Lee paced back and forth as he weighed the offer of Abraham Lincoln to take command of the Union Army on the eve of the Civil War. Lee turned the offer down and that evening took the train to Richmond. His country was still Virginia. We struggle today with the imperative of a new patriotism and citizenship. The Peace Corps has been showing us the way, and the volunteers and staff whom we honor this morning are the vanguard of that journey.