“I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.” ThinkingWorldFunLove IsTelevisionModelsActressesHandle Author:Sara Paxton
“More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.” NeedsRolesTelevisionModelsRole ModelsPositive Role Model Author:Kiana Tom
“It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc” CharacterWhiteVisionNiceTelevisionLike YouNormalModelsRacismOrdinaryCamerasBe GoodBrilliantTyrannySupposed To BeAttractiveEtcMinoritiesFlawedHeartedSurgeonsEthnicityNormalcyMain CharactersGood Hearted Author:Sandra Tsing Loh
“What's missing from the online experience is community. Married couples are still going to need something to do on Tuesday nights, right? And it's not going to be individually retiring to their offices to watch on their computers. It's: "We just put the meat loaf dishes away, let's go watch television." It's going to happen. We shouldn't be so led around by other models.” NeedsStillsHappensNightCommunityWatchesMissingTelevisionCoupleOfficeComputerMarriedModelsMeatOnlineRetiringDishesTuesdayMarried CouplesTuesday Night Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.” ThinkingWantTechnologyPathPolicyTelevisionCreatingModelsAlternativesInevitableOur TimeFree MarketFundingCivil SocietyPublic PolicyIntervening Author:Astra Taylor
“I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.” EconomicTelevisionGrewGrew UpModelsDrivenAdvertisingEconomic Models Author:Nicholas Negroponte