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- Nov 07, 2020
Media Quotes
Short lines on media, representation, and sharing.
This small set of media quotes leans on two simple ideas: that media should reflect the same variety found in the world around it, and that the impulse to share is what a platform is really built on. Like quotes touch a related everyday impulse.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without social media, I'd probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I'd be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020