“People really do identify with the characters they see on the show, but these days, social media allows you to interact with fans in a really interesting way. On my Twitter account, I'm Chris Carmack, not Will Lexington. I interact with fans and joke with them. I'll post pictures from my life. I think that helps drop the curtain of a character.” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterHelpingShowsSocialInterestingFansMediaJokesAccountsSocial MediaPostsThese DaysCurtainsReally InterestingInteresting WaysLexington Author:Chris Carmack
“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
“Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.” WorldHumanitySocialVoiceMediaChangedSocial MediaThese DaysCollectivesOur World Author:Megan Fox
“These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.” TurnsMediaThese DaysSlipsCatastrophe Author:Valerie Trierweiler
“If you really like a movie these days, you don't watch it once, especially if you're a kid, because you have a different relationship with media. You expect that to be on your hard drive, and it will look just as good, any time you watch it. It's not like VHS, where you watched it a certain amount of times and it started fading away.” IfsLooksDifferentHardKidsCertainWatchesMediaAmountThese DaysFadingFading AwayDifferent Relationships Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.” NeedsLongHas BeensEnoughStoriesBigsMightMovingNextPayAttentionMinutesMediaMissingInformationCommunicationEasierNewsHotPay AttentionThese DaysInstantScoreCyclesCoveredSixtyReportersOutletsNoveltyFiltersAlways MovingInstant CommunicationSixty Minutes Author:Arianna Huffington