#papers

The attention for bad literature is symptomatic: they pretends its the most normal thing in the world to fill an entire newspaper page with talk about a bad book, and good books are silenced to death. This mechanism is exactly the same formula as used in the Eurovision Songfestival: to present monoculture, and the proverbial hatred for that monoculture is only ritualistic, intended to give the reader the impression that the newspaper is on their side. Its the formula of entertainment: present things the reader can feel superior to. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#eurovision-songfestival #newspapers #death

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#columns #ever #i #kept #me

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality. ↗

— Michael Gartner

#corporate #decision #lost #may #much

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. ↗

— Max Hastings

#doubt #early #family #felt #had

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#curious #driven #fire #friends #go

Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers. ↗

— Kim Mathers

#every time #faces #find #getting #go

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#events #know #most #our #papers

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#cash #credit-cards #digital-age #gold #literary-style

Read not the Times, read the Eternities. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#inspirational #newspapers #times #inspirational

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you From entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines ("Zone") ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#billboard #catalogs #church #city #confession