Quote by Robert Darnton Download Open image ““News in not what happened but a story about what happened.”” — Robert Darnton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of news is ‘something that hardly ever happens.” — John Brockman (Ed Copy Share Image
“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“The news is just the story of the same thing happening to different people.” — Whiskey Britches Copy Share Image
“News is unusual things happening— And usual things happening [...] But news is mainly what someone somewhere doesn't want you to put in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“News is nothing but words, and you can never really tell if words are news.” — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.” — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
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