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an eight day clock.
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people
I'm a news junkie.
Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.
The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.
I'm interested in social commentary.
I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues.
As you will have no doubt foreseen...
- Kelvin McKenzie, The Sun's editor; Preamble of the letter he sent to the paper's astrologer he was firing
Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.
The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.
What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own.
I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.
American newspaper?" "The Tribune, general." Dornberger
I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.
I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.
source of information
Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Headers from the last few great daily papers,
Newsletter to hear about
I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.
I sit at my desk
each night with no place to go,
opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
the whole U.S.,
its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,
which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.
Though weather is important while it happens it seems to me to be pretty dull to look back on. You can take descriptions of most any sort of weather out of an almanac and stick them in just anywhere; they'll probably fit.
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
Apropos of the observatory,
60 Minutes, the most watched and most respected news program on the tube.
I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate
Today's news is tomorrow's history.
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.
Charts are great for predicting the past.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
I'm so impressed with the quality of the 'Evening News.'
There's no new news, just old news with new dates
The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
The best weather prediction for the present moment is to look out of the window!
I'm an avid biography reader.
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.
ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
Air France's in-flight magazine.
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future ... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.
An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.
find features, author interviews and news
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions
I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
She tried to think of a number she could ring, or a site online, but there was nowhere she could find out what she needed to know. It was all about tomorrow: warm fronts, cold snaps, showers expected. No one ever stopped to describe yesterday's weather.
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.
I've never heard of it. And, I don't like to brag, but I read a lot. I mean a lot. And most of it is classified. - Megan
The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.
Annals of the Four Masters.
I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.
I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
versions of Hippocrates' Prognostics, Galen On Foods, and
I always read the papers, the political bits.
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.
I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
We ought to read daily.
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
News is the first draft of history.
Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
via Ms. Vliegenthart this sixth of April, from
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.
There is only so long that a person can keep her enthusiasms locked away within her heart before she longs to share it with a fellow soul, and Alma had many decades of thoughts much overdue for sharing.
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds. Some, like myself, are librarians of the night, whose ephemeral documents consist of root-inscribed bones or whatever rustles in the thickets upon solitary walks.
In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.
I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.