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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

— Biz Stone

“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing…

— William Dean Howells

“These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went…

— Bilal Tanweer

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

— Claud Cockburn

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general…

— Ruth Ozeki

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I…

— Rory Cochrane

“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a…

— Barack Obama

“The news is just the story of the same thing happening to different people.”

— Whiskey Britches

“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

“Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” drug, crime, and disaster…

— Barry Glassner

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

“Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)”

— Matt Ridley