“Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.” LooksStoriesBigsRunningMediaNewsHipsNarrativeThemeAngleNews Stories Author:Ilana Mercer
“For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.” WorldProblemAgeTechnologyMediaInternetAuthorityEndlessNarrativeDistractionCollapseLinkedBlogsBreakdownReactionariesHyperNew Media Author:David L. Ulin
“I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can. This is why we need diverse media representations of trans folks to multiply trans narratives in the media and depict our beautiful diversities.” PeopleNeedsI CanTwoBeautifulThreeMediaDiversityFolksNarrativeDiverseRepresentationTrans Author:Laverne Cox
“We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some those images really radicalized people and shifted things to some extent. And the Viet Cong also, their tenacity.” PeopleWarMediaMastersNarrativeControlledVietnamImageryVietnam WarTenacityStorylineViet Cong Author:Anne Waldman
“Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.” KindMediaOffersVariousEmploymentNarrativeHybridMultimedia Author:Fred Ritchin
“The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.” StoriesUseEnvironmentGreaterSubjectsMediaStyleReaderProfoundDepthIncludingNarrativeComplexityDigitalInherentInvolvementLinearInputBedtimeCollaboratorsTop DownDemocratization Author:Fred Ritchin
“There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.” PeopleMatterEnoughHelpingSpaceQualityMediaCreationNarrativeProgrammingPremium Author:Mo Abudu
“I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.” ThinkingSaidEndsStoriesMovingLinesAbilityDecisionForgetHappenedMediaEventsElectionCourtSupremeNarrativeSupreme CourtTime To Move OnCourt DecisionSimply Said Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“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
“I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.” My OwnMediaNarrative Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you dare go out and criticize Hillary Clinton, they'll call you "attacking the girl," "unfairly the attacking the girl" or "unfairly attacking her husband" and it becomes a whole different media narrative.” IfsDifferentWholeGirlMediaHusbandClintonDareNarrativeCriticizeAttacking Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control the sandbox, and I am trying to orchestrate media that isn't just out there to push the right-of-center Libertarian narrative, I'm out there to destroy the false order, the false control that the left has in controlling the mainstream media in America.” PeopleFeelsTryingAmericaOrderLeftMediaLibertarianFormerNarrativeMainstreamViciousMainstream MediaLeftiesSandbox Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.” ThinkingFacesFallSocialMy OwnMediaPressureNarrativeSpheresLife ExperienceTrapsDominantObservingTransMy Own LifeConstantly Thinking Author:Vivek Shraya