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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.