A few days ago
Akita

meaning of 2 quotes?

can anyone explain the meaning of the following quotes? thanks a lot!!!:D

1. “News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.”

Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961

2. We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.”

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, “Time”, On Journalists, May 8, 1950

thankx once again!:”)

Top 5 Answers
A few days ago
hickcrazy1

Favorite Answer

1.Reporting is the telling of events as they are happening. All reporters want the big story when a crisis is occurring.

2.Newpapers tell the story of how things appear to be happening. The public decides what the outcome of the event is.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
‘The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate’ are journalists. They want stories about the showy, the peacock, or the powerful, the eagle.

And the stories they produce are snippets of history.

The second quote, I’m not sure. They, the journalists, tell the public whats happening, ‘which way the cat is jumping’. And then the public will decide if they agree. If it was a political story they might later show their disapproval by voting against the people who stirred that cat.

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5 years ago
gladis
The way I see it, is if you don’t do anything it is as bad as doing something evil. For example, You see a little boy at a train station and he is standing on the tacks. You Know that once the train comes the boy will get hit. You see the boy and do nothing. You neglect him. The Boy gets hit. Who are you now? A murderer for doing nothing? Same as in a spiritual sense. If you do nothing and you are good then you are actually doing something bad by neglecting things. If christians don’t do anything the grow spiritually they are allowing evil things to come onto them just by nothing. We are always supposed to be doing something to grow spiritually. I like this question! God bless you!
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A few days ago
Anonymous
question number 2. Might mean that whatever is rumored to the public, we will listen with an eager ear.

not enough info and since it’s something about journalism, it could be rumors, stories, gossip etc.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
when someone is talking
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