- Distributed
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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
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.
- Gossip
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020