"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."

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Source : "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

Daniel Hannan

#Interesting Quotes #Political Quotes #Bingo Quotes

“For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.”
“Women, then, are only children of a larger growth”
“I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.”
“Speed Limit â€“ A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.”
“All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.”
“Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people dont know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.”
“With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.”

Source : "Stage to Screens: Zosia Mamet, One of the "Girls," Is Now Really Really Starring Off-broadway". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. February 19, 2013.
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”

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