“As it’s the darling du jour of the Silicon Valley set, Ehrenreich asks us to consider how suspect it is that that the same people who brought us the devices that stress us out are also peddling $10 a month guided meditations to counterbalance it.”— Deanna Pai, thecut.com
“I was not made by a racist media and I will not be unmade by a racist media. What matters is what I mean to my people...without economic power, freedom is worthless”— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, facebook.com
“Our culture has embraced bloodlust, and for some, reality TV has become our coliseum. The creators set up impossible situations for us to navigate without any of the support systems of the real world. Situations that cause some of us pain and anger and sadness. They don’t do it because they are mons…”— Ben DeLaCreme, facebook.com
“The story needs to be way more than just reach. They need to focus on audience data and insights and how is it going to impact my business.”— Emma Witkowski, digiday.com
“In another instance, a former staffer told me about how Horowitz, who served as editor in chief of the site until mid-2015 and is now editor at large, once interrupted a reporter pitching a video about a woman building rooftop gardens in New Orleans: “‘But, is she black? Is she black?’" the former s…”— Adrianne Jeffries, theoutline.com
“The very moment when a client says something supportive is exactly when most sellers stop selling. But it’s actually when you should start. Ask the client to stay with the deal. I appreciate your support on this. But when someone in your position steps away it’s too easy for the wheels to come off.…”— Doug Weaver, getthedrift.com
“We do not talk—we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“My belief is that we should stop watching the news—or at least watch less—and create some distance between all these news sources and their breaking news alerts vying for our attention and turn towards contemplating the bigger picture. The philosophical picture.”— Ryan Holiday, quora.com
“It’s easy to sit back and analyze a company’s failures in hindsight and then offer prescriptive remedies. But let’s get real, if there were more soothsayers in media, Blockbuster Video would still be a living multi-billion-dollar company, and local newspapers wouldn’t be fighting to stay alive.”— Caysey Welton, foliomag.com
“Many of you in media understand why too easy access to guns is big part of the problem. Too easy access to mass media infamy following mass murder/suicide is also part of the problem. Research is more than clear at this point. Please do your part. Report responsibly, to inform. Responsible reporting…”— Zeynep Tufekci, twitter.com
“Financial brands are realizing that to be successful, content marketing needs to evolve beyond a daily listicle or how-to guide; it needs to add value and serve the needs of the target customers.”— Suman Bhattacharyya, tearsheet.co
“We will increasingly have less and less advertising. We are so disrespecting people’s time that they are spending more and more time in advertising-free environments. You’re asking me to give you my time for less than minimum wages, which is not worth my time.”— Rishad Tobaccowala, mediapost.com
“The job of a journalist would be unbearable if one was always to put oneself in the shoes of a subject.”— Nick Denton, amazon.com
“They find that Gawker’s female writers relished going after people, too, particularly other women: “Christina Hendricks Says These Giant Naked Boobs Aren’t Hers, But Everything Else Is”: 280,000 page views. “Olivia Munn’s Super Dirty Alleged Naked Pics:”: 680,000 page views. They discover that Gawke…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“It was founded, remember, by paying writers for each morsel they dropped into it, not how nutritious each morsel was.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“I came to believe that the nastiness of the internet was not a function of a technology or various things that have gone wrong, but the function of one particularly nasty media company led by a particularly sociopathic individual and that if I defeated Gawker, it would actually change the media land…”— Peter Thiel, amazon.com
“If the continued effect of Valleywag is that it makes Silicon Valley 1 percent less ambitious, what is that cost?”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com