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I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone. – David Carr	added by Normando 5 months ago
They called us, they did n’t have food. They had no power. Their phones were going down. We tried to imagine ourselves in that same situation. So we went out. – Hassan Tibwa	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
I’m an optimist. I know there are disadvantages to the cell phone. We do have people that get addicted to it. We have people walking across the street talking on their cell phones, overall, I think the cell phone has changed humanity for the better and that will continue in the future. – Martin Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our team has reverse engineered that code and we can confirm that it tries to escalate rights, tries to gain access to things normal apps wouldn’t be able to do on Android phones. – Mikko Hyppönen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At the time, they had pen, paper, and ink; they did not have cell phones, the internet, or Facebook, free speech applied then as it does now. – Richard Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The difference is not exactly like how the iPhone changed how we use phones. I think it’s more like how writing changed communication. – Rick Potts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Gov. Evers isn’t flashy, and he knows what people want isn’t ultimately flash. They want their highways repaired and their schools to teach their kids and their phones not to vibrate at 5 in the morning with something that’s going to stop them from going back to sleep, president Biden has the same thing going for him: decency and a sense of steady leadership rather than chaos and any kind of ideology that might be proceeded by the word ‘ultra.’. – Ben Wikler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Most recently, they asked for my cell phones because they want to be able to extract from it the voice recordings that I had had with Keith Davidson, former attorney to Stormy Daniels before Michael Avenatti, as well as a bunch of emails, text messages and so on. – Michael Cohen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now we carry one wherever we go with our phones, and it is so helpful. like with other new technologies, this could be a tool instructors use to help students express their ideas. – Leslie Layne	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Late last year, multiple news organizations reported that mobile phones used by U.S. diplomats in Uganda had been compromised by NASA's Pegasus tool, it is my belief that we are very likely looking at the tip of the iceberg and that other U.S. government personnel have had their devices compromised, whether by a nation state using NSA services or tools offered by one of its lesser known but equally potent competitors. – Adam Schiff	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We couldn't have imagined cell phones and what we do now, things come and go... I just hope that we can stay relevant and current, whatever that is. – Barbara Bradley Baekgaard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's important for us to get together. People need to socialize. We're already on our phones too much, it's so important to have some face to face contact again. It's so important to celebrate. – Melissa Scott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In their letter they gave no indication that they have secured the phones in question and done some forensic work with them. That's something we want to know, this obviously, this doesn't look good. Coincidences can happen but we really need to get to the bottom of this and get a lot more information than we have currently. – Zoe Lofgren	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Older people talk about selfie culture as if it's a function of narcissism, but so much of our lives has moved onto our mobile phones, especially for young people. – Pamela Rutledge	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We travel in precarious boats, without equipment such as a radio or satellite phones. – One FUNAI worker on strike	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you start handing out cell phones and say,' We'll buzz you when we need to get in touch with you,' and then they let them go on their merry way into the interior of the United States, United States's just going to encourage more and more people to come. – Chris Chmielenski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don't take their documents. We have phones that they can communicate with their families that are, you know, outside, so, I just feel really grateful to see how safe they feel and experience that sense of relief that they get here after that long and dangerous journey of uncertainty. – Gabriela Riemer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We were told we wouldn't be able to get out without that, they [said] they will just check documents and phones, and we will leave. But it wasn't as easy as they promised. – Maria Vdovychenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They [said] they will just check documents and phones, and we will leave. But it wasn't as easy as they promised. – Maria Vdovychenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
oh great, more Really Important People sitting down beside me with their damned mobile phones to screech in LOUD voices condos resale values, great new stock options, frequent flyer miles, who is fucking whom… actually, i think the rest of us are being screwed by these social leeches but god they look good don’t they – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
Everybody was trying to get outside, when I was coming out, you could see baby strollers turned over, people’s phones and left keys. It was kind of a hectic situation. – Daniel Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness. – Pastor Packiam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sin is not just ‘out there’ in the world — it’s ‘in here’ in us, when we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness. – Pastor Packiam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Way back in 2017 Trump -- without any proof -- suggested that former President Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower phones during the 2016 campaign. And again earlier this year, President Trump insisted that a filing by John Durham confirmed the spying. It did not. As Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler put it last month :. – The Durham filing	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.

– David Carr

added by Normando
5 months ago

They called us, they did n’t have food. They had no power. Their phones were going down. We tried to imagine ourselves in that same situation. So we went out.

– Hassan Tibwa

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

I’m an optimist. I know there are disadvantages to the cell phone. We do have people that get addicted to it. We have people walking across the street talking on their cell phones, overall, I think the cell phone has changed humanity for the better and that will continue in the future.

– Martin Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our team has reverse engineered that code and we can confirm that it tries to escalate rights, tries to gain access to things normal apps wouldn’t be able to do on Android phones.

– Mikko Hyppönen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the time, they had pen, paper, and ink; they did not have cell phones, the internet, or Facebook, free speech applied then as it does now.

– Richard Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The difference is not exactly like how the iPhone changed how we use phones. I think it’s more like how writing changed communication.

– Rick Potts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gov. Evers isn’t flashy, and he knows what people want isn’t ultimately flash. They want their highways repaired and their schools to teach their kids and their phones not to vibrate at 5 in the morning with something that’s going to stop them from going back to sleep, president Biden has the same thing going for him: decency and a sense of steady leadership rather than chaos and any kind of ideology that might be proceeded by the word ‘ultra.’.

– Ben Wikler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most recently, they asked for my cell phones because they want to be able to extract from it the voice recordings that I had had with Keith Davidson, former attorney to Stormy Daniels before Michael Avenatti, as well as a bunch of emails, text messages and so on.

– Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now we carry one wherever we go with our phones, and it is so helpful. like with other new technologies, this could be a tool instructors use to help students express their ideas.

– Leslie Layne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Late last year, multiple news organizations reported that mobile phones used by U.S. diplomats in Uganda had been compromised by NASA's Pegasus tool, it is my belief that we are very likely looking at the tip of the iceberg and that other U.S. government personnel have had their devices compromised, whether by a nation state using NSA services or tools offered by one of its lesser known but equally potent competitors.

– Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We couldn't have imagined cell phones and what we do now, things come and go... I just hope that we can stay relevant and current, whatever that is.

– Barbara Bradley Baekgaard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's important for us to get together. People need to socialize. We're already on our phones too much, it's so important to have some face to face contact again. It's so important to celebrate.

– Melissa Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In their letter they gave no indication that they have secured the phones in question and done some forensic work with them. That's something we want to know, this obviously, this doesn't look good. Coincidences can happen but we really need to get to the bottom of this and get a lot more information than we have currently.

– Zoe Lofgren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Older people talk about selfie culture as if it's a function of narcissism, but so much of our lives has moved onto our mobile phones, especially for young people.

– Pamela Rutledge

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We travel in precarious boats, without equipment such as a radio or satellite phones.

– One FUNAI worker on strike

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you start handing out cell phones and say,' We'll buzz you when we need to get in touch with you,' and then they let them go on their merry way into the interior of the United States, United States's just going to encourage more and more people to come.

– Chris Chmielenski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don't take their documents. We have phones that they can communicate with their families that are, you know, outside, so, I just feel really grateful to see how safe they feel and experience that sense of relief that they get here after that long and dangerous journey of uncertainty.

– Gabriela Riemer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We were told we wouldn't be able to get out without that, they [said] they will just check documents and phones, and we will leave. But it wasn't as easy as they promised.

– Maria Vdovychenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They [said] they will just check documents and phones, and we will leave. But it wasn't as easy as they promised.

– Maria Vdovychenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

oh great, more Really Important People sitting down beside me with their damned mobile phones to screech in LOUD voices condos resale values, great new stock options, frequent flyer miles, who is fucking whom… actually, i think the rest of us are being screwed by these social leeches but god they look good don’t they

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

Everybody was trying to get outside, when I was coming out, you could see baby strollers turned over, people’s phones and left keys. It was kind of a hectic situation.

– Daniel Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness.

– Pastor Packiam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sin is not just ‘out there’ in the world — it’s ‘in here’ in us, when we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness.

– Pastor Packiam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Way back in 2017 Trump -- without any proof -- suggested that former President Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower phones during the 2016 campaign. And again earlier this year, President Trump insisted that a filing by John Durham confirmed the spying. It did not. As Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler put it last month :.

– The Durham filing

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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