A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
新闻
News
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
新闻被编排、预测、报道、分析，直到所有的兴趣都被榨干，并被一些新的新奇事物所抛弃。
The old saw says, "Let a sleeping dog lie." Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.
老锯说:“莫惹事生非。”正确的。尽管如此，当有很多风险的时候，最好还是找份报纸来做。
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
我认为，人们想从有线新闻频道得到的感觉是，如果有硬新闻，它会立即出现。
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
新闻是一个什么都不在乎的人想读的东西。在他看之前都是新闻。之后它就死了。
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。
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
报纸喜欢刊登漂亮的年轻游泳运动员的照片，而作为一名全国冠军，我在体育版上占据的版面超过了我的份额。
Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.
女士们，先生们，我希望我有更好的消息告诉你们，但是我们正面临着一场我们大多数人都害怕的风暴。这是我们从未面临过的威胁。
Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.
每个人都应该得到他们想要的新闻，以他们想要的任何形式。我不会坐视别人的判断和他们做事的方式。
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
当地报纸上的一些报道和我从网上得到的报道一样枯燥乏味，基本上都是一些直接的新闻。
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
我想新闻行业的每个人都明白，看一个多小时电视的观众并不是你的目标观众——因为这些人正在接受生命支持。
I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
我住在西班牙。奥斯卡颁奖典礼将于周日晚上在电视上播出。基本上是深夜。你不看，你只是看谁赢了谁输了的新闻。
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
我一直认为，通过看新闻来了解其他人在看什么、相信什么是件好事，哪怕只是因为这是达成共识的方式。
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Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news.
在政治和有线电视新闻的背景下，真相不再重要。
I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'
我在当地的三个新闻市场工作，每一个市场的人都说:‘你是个差劲的主播。我们很愿意和你续约，让你做我们这里的首席记者，但我们不会让你做主播。”
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
好消息是耶稣回来了。坏消息是他真的很生气。
When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.
当我听到人们说福克斯新闻是右翼的时候，我知道那不是真的，因为新闻是我做的。这是我的节目，没有地方发表意见。我对它不感兴趣。
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
福克斯新闻令人印象深刻。不管受到多么严厉的批评，这个网络总是设法证明自己比我们之前想象的还要糟糕。
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
这就是新闻采访的问题所在，你竭尽全力在电台的新闻中找到重要人物，但一旦他们出现，事情就过去了，事情的紧迫性，你谈论的问题就烟消云散了。