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"It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that"

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Tabitha Soren’s line lands like a polite shrug that still manages to insult an entire industry. “It’s nice” is doing sneaky work here: the phrase is soft, almost domestic, while the argument underneath is sharp and absolute. She frames immediacy as a baseline pleasure, not a luxury, then follows with the killer simplicity of “obviously,” as if the verdict is self-evident. That word turns a preference into common sense, positioning anyone who disagrees as either out of touch or in denial.

The intent is less to dunk on newspapers than to announce a changed relationship to time. Newsprint isn’t merely slower; it’s structurally incapable of meeting the new expectation that information should arrive at the speed of life. Soren, who came up in the MTV era when “breaking” became a visual, real-time performance, speaks from a cultural moment that trained audiences to experience news as a stream, not a package. Her celebrity status matters: celebrities helped build the appetite for constant updates, and later became beneficiaries of the same always-on attention economy.

The subtext is a quiet redefinition of what “news” is for. Newspapers once offered a curated account with context, hierarchy, and a next-day perspective. Soren implies that the core value has shifted from explanation to synchronization: being “in the now” feels like being informed. It’s a seductive standard because it flatters the reader’s sense of participation. It also hints at the cost: if “as soon as it happens” is the measure, reflection becomes a delay, and delay starts to look like failure.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Soren, Tabitha. (2026, January 15). It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-nice-to-know-about-something-as-soon-as-it-150103/

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Soren, Tabitha. "It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-nice-to-know-about-something-as-soon-as-it-150103/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-nice-to-know-about-something-as-soon-as-it-150103/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Tabitha Soren

Tabitha Soren (born August 19, 1967) is a Celebrity from USA.

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