“The way things happen on social media is so abusive and everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist.” WayNeedsWritingHappensCultureSocialResponsibilityMediaSocial MediaThings HappenAllowingPersistPersonal ResponsibilityAbusiveMisinterpretation Author:Ashley Judd
“Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.” ArtStillsArtistGrowsDifferencesMediaMassTraditionalMediumsExceptionAllowingDecayMass Media Author:Pauline Kael
“Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.” WaySelfGirlSocialBitsTechnologyDoorsGroupsMediaCallingCamerasProductionsSocial MediaFilmmakerDigitalPrintAllowingSparksFewerDistributionSummitAlterationsPhotoshopDigital CamerasLeading The WayGirl GroupsPrint Media Author:Sharon Lawrence
“Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.” PeopleWantEndsMatterWould BeMediaMinesInternetSpeechAgreeBillsStatementsInnocentHeyAllowingOffensiveOffendedGeneral PublicBill O Reilly Author:Stephen Colbert
“To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.” PeopleSocialMediaSocial MediaNarrativeAllowing Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.” RealBigsLightMediaSurpriseCampaignsAlternativesCorporateDependentAllowingNonprofits Author:Jill Stein
“You see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen.” FeelsMadeHappensTodayHouseIndividualGroupsMediaMassSittingAllowingMass Media Author:Liv Ullmann