“While on trial for a murder I didn’t commit, my prosecutor painted me as a sex-crazed femme fatale, and the media profited for years by sensationalizing an already sensational and utterly unjustified story. It’s on us to stop making and stop consuming such irresponsible media.”— Amanda Knox, gen.medium.com
“It is an axiom of journalism that disaster stories begin in confusion and grow clearer over time. Facts rush in, the fog lifts, an accurate picture solidifies. The public accepts this. But the final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”— Dave Cullen, amazon.com
“We remember Columbine as a pair of outcast Goths from the Trench Coat Mafia snapping and tearing through their high school hunting down jocks to settle a long-running feud. Almost none of that happened.”— Dave Cullen, amazon.com
“The path to a successful media career has never been easy — not simply competitive, but also problematically elitist, often favoring the privileged few who could afford to take a low-paying assistant job.”— Hannah Hickok, fashionista.com
“Conde Nast is the company behind some of the world’s most glamorous and influential magazines, including Vogue, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. It is also a company in decline, because the magazine business is in decline.”— Peter Kafka, recode.net
“Used to be in the pre-internet era there were self-anointed judges, who criticized your taste. You’re not listening to or watching the right stuff. Now, no one cares. The judges are on their own island stuck in the twentieth century.”— Bob Lefsetz, lefsetz.com
“What happens when Instagram glitches or Slack stalls, and we snap out of our Very Online existence? Spoiler: Research shows that we don’t log off. We just scurry off to different (sometimes darker) corners of the web.”— Louise Matsakis, wired.com
“It has sometimes felt like there are two Rookies: There’s the publication that you read, that I also love reading, writing for, and editing; and then there is the company that I own and am responsible for. The former is an art project; the latter is a business. Each one needs and feeds the other.”— Tavi Gevinson, perfectmag.co
“The world is fast, ongoing, filled with information and screens that tell you what to do or how to be entertained.”— Hugo Rocci, wepresent.wetransfer.com
“Conservative media has been unified and resolute in hammering the narrative that Nathan Philips, a Native American veteran, somehow provoked the boys [...]. No amount of additional footage showing their Maga-yelling rowdy behavior and sexist comments before the event – not even clear and concise edi…”— Jason Wilson, theguardian.com
“The current social infrastructure of the Internet seems all but custom-built to turn white nationalists into media stars.”— Aaron Miguel Cantú, thebaffler.com
“It’s uncomfortable to acknowledge that the person you’ve been joking around with the past few years is exactly the guy your harshest critics said he was.”— Ashley Feinberg, huffingtonpost.com
“I am outraged and disgusted that the DA continues to persecute my client. Trials are supposed to be conducted in court rooms before juries. This is trial by TV.”— Jerry Bruckheimer, Ron Trott, Victor Garber, imdb.com
“Sometimes the media goes too far and the way they portray some stories, it’s not correct. It’s not right.”— Melania Trump, abcnews.go.com
“As arguably the most popular musician in the world, there’s no way for her to collapse this distance while keeping everyone’s role separate and intact.”— Shawn Cooke, theoutline.com
“You treat me like a baby! Am I like a baby to you? I sit there like a little baby and watch TV and you talk to me? Am I a fucking baby, Paul [Manafort]?”— Donald Trump, finance.yahoo.com