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... those who will do their bidding...all without being seen...a good thing if you were a hardcore-leftist in a country dominated by traditionalists. News enterprises have always represented the convictions of the owner, the publisher. You might not think it possible, but the most liberal of rags, The New York Times, was once a conservative newspaper! I know... it is hard...

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..... all present and accounted for. What is fiction is what happens... very enjoyable read! It should be a wake up call for dum dums who still think US News sources like CNN and MSNBC are "unbiased". ...

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...News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep afte...

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...ract above; and it began to be noised abroad, as every thing is in this city and age of news-mongers, and was brought to the ears of a dear brother ... ...ch in these parts, their scoffs, their insinuations, their magazine raillery, and their news paper abuse. To this very providential meeting of our m... ...ances contained in this or that magazine, or remarkable events recorded in this or that newspaper, nor from the sermon of this or that man, nor from ... ... language of a magazine, or to describe the heaven of heavens with the vocabulary of a newspaper. This kind of discoursing in Tillotson and his scho...

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...rton Densher, who passed the best hours of each night at the office of his newspaper, had at times, during the day, to make up for it, a sense, or at ... ...oney were beauti- fully present to him; he could have handled them for his newspaper as easily as he handled everything. He was quite aware how he han... ...ness, as if there weren’t plenty of that “factor” (to use one of his great newspaper-words), and with what they could muster be- tween them it would b... ...m abruptly, the night before, that he might give himself a lift and do his newspaper a service—so flatteringly was the case ex- pressed—by going for f... ...rbiter of their destiny. The way for that had been blocked a little by his news from Fleet Street; but in the crucible of their happy discussion this ... ...r all—a nature that reminded Mrs. Stringham of the term always used in the newspapers about the great new steamers, the inordinate number of “feet of ... ...ioned, she hadn’t yet—hadn’t, that is, at the end of six days—produced any news for her comrade to compare with an announcement made her by the latter... ... other En- glish friend, the gentleman, the one connected with the English newspaper (Susie hung fire a little over his name) who had been with her in... ... James and it doubtless affected Milly a little as the cheerful demand for news is apt to affect troubled spirits when news is not, in one of the neat...

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...us? MARCIUS: Here: what’s the matter? Messenger: The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms. MARCIUS: I am glad on ‘t: then w... ...l not forth. VALERIA: In truth, la, go with me; and I’ll tell you excellent news of your husband. VIRGILIA: O, good madam, there can be none yet. VA... ... there can be none yet. VALERIA: Verily, I do not jest with you; there came news from him last night. VIRGILIA: Indeed, madam? VALERIA: In earnest,... ...LARTIUS, Captains and Soldiers. To them a Messenger.] MARCIUS: Yonder comes news. A wager they have met. LARTIUS: My horse to yours, no. MARCIUS: ... ...Enter a Messenger .] Thy news? Messenger: The citizens of Corioli have issued, And given to Larti... ...eard their drums: How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour, And bring thy news so late? Messenger: Spies of the Volsces ... ...people, SICINIUS and BRUTUS .] MENENIUS: The augurer tells me we shall have news to night. BRUTUS: Good or bad? MENENIUS: Not according to the pray... ...I last saw you; but your favor is well approved by your tongue. What’s the news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state, to find you out ther... ... [ Re enter third Servingman .] Third Servingman: O slaves, I can tell you news,— news, you rascals! First Servingman and Second Servingman: What,...

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... the Carpet had time to read it; he had gone to pieces in conse- quence of news requiring—as on precipitate reflexion he judged—that he should catch t... ...ood lady the words you so naturally resent. I don’t read the things in the newspapers unless they’re thrust upon me as that one was—it’s always one’s ... ...ral occasions to the little house in Chelsea I dare say it was as much for news of Vereker as for news of Miss Erme’s ailing parent. The hours spent t... ...sappeared with Vereker’s leaving England for an indefinite absence, as the news- papers announced—going to the south for motives con- nected with the ... ...u patuit dea!” “It’s you, Miss Erme, who are a ‘dear’ for bringing me such news!” —I went all lengths in my high spirits. “But fancy finding our godde... ...great deal of money in telegrams and cabs, and I counted on the receipt of news from Rapallo imme- diately after the junction of the discoverer with t... ...ntly grew sure that at the time he went to India, at the time of his great news from Bombay, there had been no positive pledge between them whatever. ... ...postscript to my very first letter to her after the receipt of the hideous news, asked Mrs. Corvick whether her husband mightn’t at least have finishe... ...d: he had come to see what she thought of “The Right of Way,” and to bring news that was singularly relevant. The evening papers were just out with a ...

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...ad, and rather suspended than poised. He stood before a table on which old newspapers were scattered, one of which he had taken up and, with his eye-g... ...s that honourable but extremely diminutive sheet, the Journal de Geneve, a newspaper of about the size of a pocket-handkerchief. As I drew near, looki... ...t by the hour in the little garden of the pension, with a roll of American news- papers in his lap and his high hat pushed back, swinging one of his l... ... to the Alpine chain, which this morning was brilliant and distinct, and a news- paper, unfolded, in his lap. He was not reading, however; he was star... ...e him in gloomy contemplation. I don’t know whether I recognised first the newspaper or its proprietor; one, in either case, would have helped me to i... ...hing, and they handed me out a Herald.” “I hope the Herald is full of good news,” I said. “Can’t say it is. D-d bad news.” “Political,” I inquired, “o... ...od-natured and soft, seems to me a really tragic figure. He is getting bad news every day from home; his business is going to the dogs. He is unable t... ...en plush table- cloth. I timidly expressed the hope that he had got better news from home; whereupon he gave me a look in which, considering his provo... ...sort in the old town. “I couldn’t eat, sir,” he said, “I—couldn’t eat. Bad news takes away the appetite. But I guess I’ll go with you, so that I needn...

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... friend in America, about the length of my stay in England, about the last news in London and the people I had seen there; and I remember looking for ... ...ime she had heard it fre- quently enough and couldn’t treat it as stirring news. There was even in her manner a suggestion that I was so young as to e... ...f. The first thing I did after bidding her good-morning was to ask her for news of her little nephew—to express the hope she had heard he was better. ... ... as simple as ever he found them, and that he very seldom talked about the newspapers, which, by the way, were always even abnormally vulgar about him... ...n abnormally vulgar about him. Of course he may have thought them over—the newspapers—night and day; the only point I make is that he didn’t show it w... ...ld instantly have can- celled such a judgement on reflecting that the good news 34 The Author of Beltraffio his wife was able to give him about their... ...er son was an implication that I had consented, and it wasn’t possible the news could please her. This ought doubtless to have made me more careful as... ... herself im- mensely distressed, and she finally told me what her own last news of her nephew had been. She had sat up very late—after me, after Mark—... ...hook hands with me in silence, kissed my companion, opened his letters and news- papers and pretended to drink his coffee. But I took these movements ...

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...ook off his hat, however, with much condescension to Mr. Sedley, who asked news about his son-in-law, and about Jos’s carriage, and whether his horses... ...nt. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. Such a Corsi... ...end, the Countess of Bareacres, with such assiduity that the 25 Thackeray news how his son was entertaining peers and peeresses actu- ally came to Os... .... “Will you dine here? The dragon dines with the Commander-in-Chief. Great news is stirring. They say the French have crossed the frontier. We shall h... ...ree hours.” A way went George, his nerves quivering with excitement at the news so long looked for, so sudden when it came. What were love and intrigu... ... and wake Amelia, he thought, or leave a note for her brother to break the news of departure to her? He went in to look at her once again. She had bee... ...al at breakfast. But these were mere by-gone days and talk. When the final news arrived that the campaign was opened, and the troops were to march, Ra... ...ered ninety for the mare yesterday, before this con- 43 Thackeray founded news came, and like a fool I wouldn’t let her go un- der the two o’s. Bullf... ... and there mingled with other valets, couriers, and lackeys, gathered such news as was abroad, and brought back bulletins for his master’s information...

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... which a reference to the back files or even to the morning’s issue of the newspapers might easily prove a mistake. But Washington life, to Count Otto... ...! It seems impossible,” he gasped, “to find out.” “You can find out in the newspapers. They’ve had ar- ticles about it. They write about everything no... ...t?” he appealed as they went. “It will all depend. I’m expecting important news. What 49 Henry James I shall do will be influenced by that.” The way ... ...I shall do will be influenced by that.” The way she talked about expecting news—and impor- tant!—made him feel somehow that she had a career, that she... ...e had never seen any girl like her. It would have occurred to him that the news she was expecting might have reference to the favour she had begged of... ...atient. She was pa- tient several seconds and then asked him if he had any news. He looked at her briefly, in silence, smiling, after which he drew fr... ...home alone and in some intensity of meditation. Two days later he saw in a news- paper an announcement that the President had offered the post of Mini... ...finally “got round” to the altar of her own nuptials. He communicated this news to Mrs. Bonnycastle, who had not heard it but who, shrieking at the qu...

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... set them going; ‘you remember, in India, my pointing to you his name in a newspaper—letter on the subject. He was gen- erally safe for the cricketing... ...t, where written to, during the Summer, in case of his wishing to send her news. She replied: ‘Copsley will be the surest. I am always in communicatio... ... the benches of the House, with an anecdote, or 64 Diana of the Crossways news of a Division. I am sure to be enlivened. ‘So I have written to you fu... ...inary number next week. Then for three weeks not a line. Sir Lukin brought news from London that Warwick had returned, nothing to explain the silence.... ...gan with a hesitating circumlocution, in order to prepare her mind for bad news. She divined immediately that it concerned Diana, and forcing him to s... ...’ ‘Tell me of them; we breed them here. We sell them peri- odically to the newspapers!’ ‘Well, I started them in their natal locality. I saw them, go-... ...r double the journey! A bit of a shake always braces me up. I could read a newspaper right off, small print and all. Come along, sir, and hand the lad... ...dear wife by serving her friend), he began a cru- sade against the scandal-newspapers, going with an Irish military comrade straight to the editorial ... ...ve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter half of a week of good news. First, Mr. Thomas Redworth was returned to Parliament by a stout majo...

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...t Birotteau’s health, and asked in a gentle voice if he had had any recent news that gave him hopes of his canonry. The vicar explained the steps he h... ... She came from Tours in the hope of being useful to the poor abbe, and the news she brought completely changed the aspect of the af- fair. As she ente... ...t this beginning of mental alienation was an effect produced by the sudden news of Abbe Poirel’s nomination. She knew nothing, of course, of the fatal... ...fi- bres of a plant, sucked in, with the thirst of a leaf for the dew, the news and the secrets of each household, and trans- mitted them mechanically... ...friends) one of the secretaries showed him a document confirming the fatal news, which was only waiting the signature of the director, who was ill, to... ...nterests Birotteau felt he was a mere worm; he judged himself harshly. The news of Birotteau’s removal from Madame de Listomere’s house seemed all the... ... pause, amazed at the coldness with which Madame de Listomere received the news. “It is just as if the abbe were a hundred miles from Tours, from his ... ...rs to reside in his diocese, but he delayed his departure on receiving the news. Furious at being foiled by a woman to whom he had lately given his co...

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...ly farewell. [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS .] And now, Laertes, what’s the news with you? You told us of some suit; what is’t, Laertes? You cannot s... ...] MARCELLUS: How is’t, my noble lord? HORATIO: What news, my lord? HAMLET: O, wonderful! HORATIO: Good my lord,... ... joyfully return’d. KING CLAUDIUS : Thou still hast been the father of good news. LORD POLONIUS : Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege, I hold my... ... long to hear. LORD POLONIUS : Give first admittance to the ambassadors; My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. KING CLAUDIUS : Thyself do ... ... In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she is a strumpet. What’s the news? ROSENCRANTZ: None, my lord, but that the world’s grown honest. HAM... ... but that the world’s grown honest. HAMLET: Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true. Let me question more in particular: what have you, my ... ...t, sir: o’ Monday morning; ’twas so indeed. LORD POLONIUS : My lord, I have news to tell you. HAMLET: My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius... ...o imagine— [Enter a Messenger .] Hamlet, Act IV, scene vii 86 How now! what news? Messenger: Letters, my lord, from Hamlet: This ... ...tio; The potent poison quite o’er crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England; But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: ...

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...e. These papers contain altogether thirty—one manu- script pages, and one newspaper in extenso, and yet I do not find it anywhere charged in them tha... ... letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has been published in the news- papers of that State. It has not been announced or decided in any fo... ... D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD, Auburn, N.Y .: No important news. Details of Hooker’s night fight do great credit to his command, and ... ...ly did not expect to see in print, yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of wh... ..., November 16, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Knoxville, Tenn.: What is the news? A. LINCOLN. TO SECRETARY CHASE EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, Novemb... ...ongstreet and yourself about the amnesty proclamation, which is now in the newspapers, genuine? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO E. STANLEY. EXECUTIVE MANSION,... ... here and there, anxiously watching the process of events. Well, the next news we had was of Pope’s disaster at Bull Run. Things looked darker than e... ...the week of the battle of Antietam. I determined to wait no longer. The news came, I think, on Wednesday, that the advantage was on our side. I wa... ...r armies in the field, but am considerably cheered, just now, by favorable news from them. I am sure you will join me in the hope for their further su...

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...musing that for long afterwards he never encountered me without asking for news of the old man of the sea. I hadn’t said Mr. Saltram was old, and it w... ...ht have ensued. For what there would have been to do The Empire, the great newspaper, was there to look to; but it was no new misfortune that there we... ...ho, it appeared, was engaged to be married to Mr. George Gravener; and the news was two months old. A direct question of Mrs. Saltram’s had thus remai... ... very next month that this fine faculty had undergone a temporary eclipse. News of the catas- trophe first came to me from Mrs. Saltram, and it was af... ...ly in for some big reverse. Lady Coxon’s worse again, awfully upset by the news from America, and she sends me word that she MUST have Ruth. How can I... ...her not earnest enough or not poor enough. On the receipt of the first bad news about Mr. Anvoy’s affairs she proposed to Ruth to make the sacrifice f... ..., by Mrs. Saltram, I was informed of Lady Coxon’s death without having had news of Miss Anvoy’s return, I found myself taking for granted we should he...

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...es come round.” “And so I hope they will,” said Mr. Holworth. “I hear good news of the King’s cause in the north.” Then they began to consult where to... ...pence instead of only three halfpence. Jephthah, however, had far too much news to tell to heed her disappointment as she counted the money. He declar... ...m through their mother’s ill- ness, had hobbled up on hearing the terrible news. She looked like a witch, with a tall hat, short cloak, and nose and c... ...y, though there had been no oppor- tunity of letting his family know. “Ill news travels fast enough!” And as to Harry, he had been shot down by a troo... ... saw Jeph coming, and said he was a crop- eared villain.” This was not bad news, and they all entered the hut, where the fire was made up, and one of ... ...r or to learn his fate. The little thing was wild with ex- citement at the news. Disdainfully she tore off what she called Rusha’s Puritan rags, thoug... ...tol was small and unenter- prising, and in point of fact the war was over. News travelled slowly, but Stead picked up scraps at Bristol, by which he u... ...ice, and passed away the time as best he could, learning on the way that a news letter had been re- ceived stating that the King was with the Scottish... ...r- mined, but mind not more at ease. The appointment of a woodward was bad news, for the copsewood and the game had been left to their fate for the la...

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...’ve been down to Folkestone—it was necessary I should see her!” I forget whether he had come straight from the station; he was at any rate out of brea... ...everything that can be urged against him I hold him none the less the very pearl of men. However, I haven’t come up to declare my passion— I’ve come t... ...rimination by the production of some dozen. I spent a year in America and should probably have spent a second had I not been summoned back to England ... ...t that in our young lady’s calculations the lowest figures were now Italian counts. This was a good omen, and if in subse- 44 Glasses quent letters t...

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...“Now, I’ve done a lot already. That’s what made me late. I’ve ordered your newspaper sent here, and I’ve telephoned the hotel to forward any mail that... ...arm behind her head. “Well, Laura,” she began at length, “I have some real news for you. My dear, I believe you’ve made a conquest.” “I!” murmured Lau... ...ne, his handkerchief over his knee, adjusted his spectacles, and opening a newspaper two days old, began to read with 66 The Pit peering deliberation... ... always with the same fetid, unlighted cigars, always with the same frayed news- papers two days old. There they sat, inert, stupid, their decaying se... ... now and then he is supposed to send me what the reporters call “exclusive news”—that’s what I feed him for, and I could run a private steam yacht on ... ...ed him for, and I could run a private steam yacht on what it costs me. But news I get from him is a day or so in advance of everybody else. He hasn’t ... ...ow here’s the chance to make really a fine Bear deal. Why, as soon as this news gets on the floor there, the price will bust right down, and down, and... ...iving their orders for the day. As he was buying a couple of apples at the news stand at the end of the corridor, Semple and a young Jew named 71 Fra... ...friend of mine; spent most of his time in Constantinople; had some kind of newspaper business there. It seems that it’s a pretty crazy proposition, Tu...

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... a certain great person will be threatened with death or sickness. This the news-papers will tell them; for there we find at the end of the year, tha... ...d Style observed in England, which I desire he will compare with that of the news-papers, at the time they relate the actions I mention. I must add on... ...onfine my- self, for several reasons very obvious to the reader. On the 15th news will arrive of a very surprizing event, than which nothing could be ...

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... to cheer her, but at that instant little Arthur darted into the hall with news that the armourer was come from Taunton, with two mules, loaded with a... ...et, which had become much heated during his hasty ride in the hot sun. “No news of the truant?” asked Gaston. “Who but you would have thought of going... ...” said Gaston. “Mayhap not. You are fresh in the camp, and it is no recent news, nor do men question much whence their comrades come. Well, Albricorte... ...ad done their best to make him forget its existence; but no sooner did the news of his death reach England, than Fulk began to take an ungenerous adva... ... sufficient party of English Knights, who were sure to be attracted by the news of the war. No less than two months was he obliged to wait, during whi... ...ys lodged. He met with a ready welcome, and inquiring into the most recent news of the town, learnt that the Prince was considered to be slightly impr... ...hanged. Perhaps the Prince regarded him with additional displeasure, since news had arrived that Sir Richard Ferrars had made application to the Duke ... ...ng, ‘he was come from England, Hungary, or elsewhere,’ and telling all the news of the place.” “And what think you was he?” “That was what our Lord, t... ... hear the trai- torous villains send off T ristan de la Fleche to bear the news to Carcassonne? We shall have the butcher of Bretagne at our throats b...