Disaster Quote by Clement Attlee

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an…

— Gregg Easterbrook

The press is the enemy.

— Richard M. Nixon

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

— Jim Lehrer

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

— Freeman Dyson

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to…

— Chris Hedges

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction…

— Ernst Fischer

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that…

— Edwidge Danticat

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In…

— Michael Medved

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly…

— Max Lucado

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of…

— Alexander Hamilton

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by…

— Bill Keller