Coverage Quotes

• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Dick Morris

  War, Iraq, Events

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• Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

  Brit Hume

  Tv News, People, Tilt

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• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Senior, Drug, Towns

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• When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

  Sasha Alexander

  Writing, College, Acting

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 10, 2001.

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• But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Today Life, People, Live For Today

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• The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

  Ron Ziegler

  Discussion

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• But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

  Tony Campolo

  Children, Men, Iraq

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• I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Needs, Knows

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• I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

  Bob McDonnell

  Healthcare

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• I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

  John Malkovich

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

  "John Malkovich Discusses Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

  Gary Lineker

  Brother, Home, Law

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• Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Government, Epidemics, Autism

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, War, Creativity

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• I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

  James Daly

  Technology, Thinking, Focus

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• The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Differences, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

  Paul Gillmor

  Work, House, Important

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• Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

  John Conyers

  America, Citizens, Care

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• Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Educational, Media, Osteoporosis

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Survivor

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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• Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

  Peter Bart

  Stars, Example, Too Much Information

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• We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Drug, Guilt

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• The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.

  Jim Ryun

  Majority, Cost, Rising

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• Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

  Robert Teeter

  Country, Moving, Voting

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• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Daniel Schorr

  Trying, Sake, Needed

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• Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Numbers, Offering

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