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Russell Baker

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

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"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."

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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."

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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."

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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

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"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."

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"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

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"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."

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"Events tend to recur in cycles."

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"Headlines twice the size of the events."

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"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."

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