By Natalie Raymond and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, December 4 , 1937P. 23 First-hand news we have from Paris this week is about a sign in a haberdasher's shop, on a man's suit - this sign: "Tres chic, tres English - Tres snob-presque cad".
I would not be a witness to these events, only a recipient of second-hand news.
In a letter promoting himself to his SIS superior in London, Ernest Boyce, in 1919, Ransome wrote: 'It seems to me to be blazing madness to have no one in Russia capable of getting first-hand news at the top.
"One of the main purposes of filming this video in the particular areas that we did," Robinson explains, "was to bring something positive to a community that is otherwise used to hearing, and experiencing first hand, bad news".
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President Kennedy had to hear the news second hand from his United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.
"(International journalists hired by CCTV) do first-hand, original news packages, two-ways, interviews and their output [is] usually of high quality," explained a high-ranking CCTV official, reached through Jim Laurie in Beijing.
He got his information the same way his colleagues from other news organizations did — at second hand.
Also, finding out what is happening in the world - we now have first hand access to news, not just through edited newspapers but more than ever through direct contact with real people - through blogs, tweets and videos from political hotspots for instance.
Merce Cunningham, "Second Hand".
