“There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.” KnowsWayFactsHappensSimpleTalkingMediaDangerousPoliticianPressesBottomComplicatedBetter WaysSummarizing Author:Seth Gordon
“Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.” LittlesSelfStoriesBigsRealitySeemsLinesSimpleMediaMissingCrimeTelevisionTvsDramaPressesCriticsTendenciesJournalismMessThese DaysBotherComplexityPrintComplaintsAmbiguityGood StoryJournalisticSelf Contained Author:Meg Greenfield
“Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.” IfsArtistDiesSimpleMediaTelevisionBillsRadioSavedScalesDevicesOld LadyMalnutritionFederationTelevision And Radio Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.” PeopleThinkingShouldYoungSocialSimpleMediaJudgingDeedsSocial MediaMeritGood Deeds Author:Patti Smith
“We think of Craigslist as a form of Social Media.We provide a simple service that is mostly free and we leave money in the community, instead of taking it away. Shared values, nothing fancy, treating people like we want to be treated. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesMatterUseFormValuesSocialCommunitySimpleTechnologyMediaSocial MediaTreatedFancyWhat MattersShared ValuesCraigslist Author:Craig Newmark
“Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.” WayLittlesStillsSocialBitsSimpleFansMediaLittle BitPagesCommunicateSocial MediaPlatforms Author:Mark Cuban
“The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.” BookGivenSimpleConditionsMediaProductsDrawsStructureSettingConclusionSettingsDescriptionConsentControversialManufacturing Author:Noam Chomsky