Catastrophe Quote by Harry Allen Overstreet

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

— Nadine Gordimer

“When it happens to you it's a national tragedy— Why aren't the papers reporting this? you wonder. Only when it happens to someone else…

— David Sedaris

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something…

— Dan Gilroy

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen…

— Salman Rushdie

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

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it…

— Vera Brittain

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption,…

— Nicholas Kristof

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

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

— Carl Sandburg

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn…

— James Purdy

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

— John Fowles

“Reporters can't douse flames or soothe burns. They have no control over the horrors they witness. But if they can overcome fear and physical…

— Sue Merrell