The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

  • -- Peter McWilliams 麦克威廉斯

新闻媒体在很大程度上是坏消息的制造者。这也不完全是媒体的错,坏消息获得更高的收视率,比好消息卖出更多的报纸。

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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

人们非常不善于记住长长的目标清单。当我试图让我的高绩效教练客户保持在正轨上时,我在专业水平上学会了这一点;他们的待办事项和目标清单越长,他们就越不知所措,越偏离轨道。清晰伴随着简单。

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

电视新闻的一个很好的功能是,当没有新闻的时候,我们给你同样的强调,就像它是。

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

一个小人物,把她所有的时间都花在和平上,创造了新闻。许多人,付出一些时间,就能创造历史。

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

不知道世界上正在发生什么可能是件坏事。我不能说我真的赞成它。

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

我总是说,当一个国家以如此压倒性的力量获胜时,对这个国家来说是个坏消息。

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

这是我们最大的问题之一,总是别人的错而不是我们自己的错。

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

我认为真人秀节目太糟糕了。它是媒体不让人们思考的工具。

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

只有大自然才知道如何使过错与应得的惩罚成正比例。

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

在商界,坏消息通常对其他人来说是好消息。

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

媒体向我们讲述战争的方式完全不同。