“People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldLiteratureQualityMediaPaperAppreciateGrantedEditorials Author:David Talbot
“Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.” MediaPaperStandardsRemainsDigitalAspireDigital Media Author:Leah Price
“Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.” IfsWorldWayShouldLittlesStatesLawChoicesNumbersDemocracyHappenedMediaStylePaperNewsPressesDisasterTeethTreatedJournalistEditorsStaffComplaintsPapersAnother WayCallousGaddafiMuammar Gaddafi Author:Neal Ascherson
“Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.” EndsRunningMediaPaperCatFeeding Author:Oscar Ameringer
“Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.” TwoPoliticalWhiteMediaTenPaperSellingJournalismBuyingPoundsCentsWhite PaperTwo Cents Author:Charles A. Dana
“The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.” MindHumansMediaPaperEveningGet AwayPrintHuman MindAfternoonRuinedPapers Book:Kitty Foyle Source: Kitty Foyle
“The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.” WantIdeasUseMediaInformationOfficePaperValuableStoresBad IdeasGood PlacePaperless Author:David Gelernter
“From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.” PeopleStatesUsedNationsUnitedUnited StatesMediaPaperGoldSilverMetalsAncestorCoinsMonetaryInceptionGold And SilverMonetary SystemPaper MoneyPrecious Metal Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's dorm room at Stanford. Favorite memory. Favorite memory! Out everything, favorite memory. Now, I would love to hear somebody in the media ask Hillary what contact paper is.” AsksMemoriesRoomsMediaPaperDown AndBillsClintonContactChestsDrawersChelseaStanfordDormsDorm RoomsFavorite Memories Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.” TwoGuyAsksFoundPiecesMediaFashionEventsPaperNewsDecidedThirdsHearingIranCoveredAmerican HistoryUnprecedentedOverlookedIran Contra Author:Roger Ailes
“I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.” IfsThinkingStillsBookMomentsLeftCreativePiecesMediaPaperComputerRegardExpertsBe CreativeOld FashionedLeft AloneNew MediaPowerpointWorking All The Time Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."” BigsCitiesTreeMediaPaperNosesExpertsShakesBentPapersBig CitiesGorillas Author:Edwin Diamond
“Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.” UseSocialTermMediaPaperCriticismSocial MediaEditorsArticlesJournalPapersBlogs Author:Andrew Gelman
“For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge number of links to news articles, blog posts, scientific papers, web cams, video and photos. That archive came to the attention of Chatham House, and they then commissioned me to research the way in which the media responded to the ash cloud crisis. I think that's the only time that my degree and my career have fully intersected, and it really was a lovely moment!” ThinkingWayMomentsHouseNumbersAttentionCareersMediaExampleHugeDegreesPaperNewsResearchCrisisCloudsDetailsLovelyVideoPostsLinksArticlesAshesPapersOnly TimeBlogsVolcanoesArchivesEruptionGeologistHuge Numbers Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“There was a story in the paper yesterday that 74 per cent of what Donald Trump says is false but 75 per cent of what Hillary Clinton says is true yet they are, they are portrayed in the media as equally bad and I don't think that is fair.” ThinkingStoriesMediaTrumpPaperFairsClintonYesterdayCents Author:Charlie Pickering
“Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.” PeopleStillsEndsGovernmentAbleAmericaReadingTalkingMediaInformationPaperRussiaFlightJournalistBoardsSeatsLatinPapersLatin AmericaPassports Author:Edward Snowden