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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• The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

  Ron Ziegler

  Discussion

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

  Bob McDonnell

  Healthcare

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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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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Hurt, People

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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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• When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Doctors, Firsts, Medication

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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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• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Wind, Tree, Bending

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• Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

  Greg Walden

  Years, Small Business, Reason

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• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Government, Parades

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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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• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

  Kate Adie

  School, Illustration, Progress

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• A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

  Chris Christie

  Teacher, Careers, Vision

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• Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

  David Shuster

  Hurt, Lying, Numbers

  "MSNBC's David Shuster Loves 'Brilliant' Obama; Hates 'Atrocious' Fox News". Article by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. May 01, 2009.

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• He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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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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