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«The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.»
Author: Carl Bernstein
(Journalist)
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accuracy, blizzard, Business Today, compete, context, felony, frenzied, presented, quantity, splash, splashed, splashes, splashing, The News, thoroughness
«Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.»
«Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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accomplished, complete, completed, context, Hope and Faith, however, immediate, In Context, lifetime, saved, therefore, virtuous
«Taken out of context I must seem so strange.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
context, In Context, seem, strange, taken
«Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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anti, an American, benefited, candidly, compared, context, critically, eternally, Europe, grateful, greatly, In Context, irresponsibly, media, My Country, news, news media, radically, sentiment, slings, slung, The News
«The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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acceptable, context, corrupting, ethical, tastes, The Hard