A Quote by Ellen Goodman
In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.
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Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.
The tag that I was too small and too slow just made me work that much harder. Besides, quickness is more important than flat-out speed. How often does a receiver run 40 yards straight down the field? Not very often. Lateral speed is what counts. How quickly can you get in and out of a cut? I can do that as well as anyone.
Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.
Too often, there are complaints in the British papers about the BBC. It's too left wing, too right wing, too pro-Brexit, too anti, and so on. It's only when you go abroad and try to find out what is going on in the world that everyone falls with gratitude before the BBC News.
We're news junkies in my house.
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.
Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.
Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.
The biggest leap between the NFL and college football is the speed. That's something you hear often. But I think there's more to it than just the speed of the players - there's also the speed with which you have to process information around you.
Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ? We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.
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