“No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.” WayMatterMediaTelevisionTvsInternetFindingsMediumsProgrammingSavantsNumbered Days Author:Tom Shales
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.” ShouldWritingEndsRememberArtistSocialEasyRecordsMediaFindingsIndependentCaughtStudiosSocial MediaProducersThe End Of The DayCaught UpWebsiteEasy To GetWriting MusicMerchandise Author:Tyler Hilton
“Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.” StoriesYoungCertainMediaParticularFindingsLowsMediumsBrows Author:Corey Stoll
“The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStillsForgetTroubleMediaFindingsNewsEverydayWarmHorribleGrantedExceptionFriendlyBad ThingsEveryday Life Author:Tom Bodett
“Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical.” WayCommunitySpaceDealsMediaKeysFindingsToolsIndependentCriticalAlternativesDistributionSatellitesNew MediaIndependent Media Author:Chuck D
“Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.” ThinkingWaySocialMediaElementsFindingsStartingSocial MediaEtcPoeticNew Ways Author:George Saunders
“I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.” IfsWorldWayPersonsWould BeNextFunSocialGoalCreativeImagineTalentMediaFindingsSocial MediaFocusedCleverAdsEngagingBetter PlacePouringMillenniumBanality Author:Scott D. Anthony
“The media does not act like they ever lose. If Trump wins, their attitude is gonna be, "Well, it's just gonna take us a little longer to destroy him." And they will continue to try to destroy Trump. And they will do it by finding Democrats who think that he deserves to be impeached.” IfsThinkingTryingWellsLittlesDoeWinningLosesAttitudeMediaTrumpFindingsDeserveDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Of course [the White House press corps] are a factor, and the reason is they're not media. They happen to pretend or portray people running around finding out things nobody else knows and telling everybody, but that's not what they do.” PeopleKnowsReasonHappensRunningCoursesHouseWhiteMediaFindingsPressesFactorsWhite House Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't even think people are even making an effort to understand Trump. I'm thinking primarily of Democrats and media here. I think they're so arrogant that they don't look at Trump as anything other than a badly molded piece of clay that has to be fixed and reshaped and reformed. And there isn't any interest whatsoever in actually finding out what the guy is or what makes him tick. The only objective is to shut him down as he ticks now.” PeopleThinkingLooksGuyInterestEffortPiecesMediaTrumpFindingsDemocratObjectivesFixedArrogantClayTick Author:Rush Limbaugh