Quotes tagged ‘News’

“I reject the idea that the pot is nearly at a boil and I must watch it closely until the exact moment that it happens.”

— Ryan Holiday, observer.com

“Twitter isn’t designed to help you get in and get out with the best information as quickly as possible—it’s supposed to suck you into either a contentious world of argument and debate or an echo-chamber that reassures you everyone thinks like you do.”

— Ryan Holiday, observer.com

“News is mainly entertainment. Its primary objective is to keep you watching so that it makes money. What better than negativity and apocalyptic scenarios to keep your attention?”

— Michal Bohanes, medium.com

“Nearly half of people now get their news from Facebook. But Facebook doesn’t see itself as a media company; its business objective is to get users to spend more time on the platform, not to serve democracy. But as a distributor of news, it’s a highly flawed one.”

— Lucia Moses, digiday.com

“Juno: I'm pregnant. Leah: What? Honest to blog? Juno: Yeah. Yeah, it's Bleeker's. Leah: It's probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch? Juno: No, this is not a food baby all right? I've taken like three pregnancy tests, and I'm forshizz up the spout. Leah: How did you even generate enough…”

— Leah, Ellen Page, Olivia Thirlby, Juno, amazon.com

“I’d like to press pause on the Apocalypse. Enough bad news for now.”

— John Horan, medium.com

“They’re not monsters. They want what we want: safety, security, health, and wealth. It’s not even us vs. them. It’s just us.”

— John Biggs, thearcmag.com

“Wait. You can’t be. You’re too successful to be illegal.”

— Jose Antonio Vargas, emergingus.com

“I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.”

— Chris Kluwe, vox.com

“I have tremendous respect for women. No one respects women more than I do”

— Donald Trump, youtube.com

“I get all my news from the memes”

— nic brodine, twitter.com

“Our investigation did not substantiate this allegation. To the contrary, topics related to each figure were accepted as trending topics on dozens of occasions. Ted Cruz was accepted as a trending topic more than 160 times; Rand Paul was accepted on50 occasions; Mitt Romney was accepted more than 40…”

— Colin Strech, commerce.senate.gov

“Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the Trending Topics feature. In fact, our analysis indicated that the rates of approval of conservative and liberal topics are virtually identical in trending topics.”

— Colin Strech, commerce.senate.gov

“'We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,' said one former curator. 'If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it—even if it wasn’t na…”

— Michael Nunez, Anonymous Facebook News Curator, gizmodo.com

“News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import. Even if it's fiction, it's probably better most of the time.”

— Evan Williams, techcrunch.com

“To follow the daily or hourly news cycle is the media equivalent of day-trading: it’s frenzied, pointless and usually unprofitable. I’d much rather read an item which just showed me the photos or documents. And if you’re going to write some text, take a position or explain something to me. Give me o…”

— Nick Denton, thewire.com

“When I come home, flush with all this new semi-insider gossip, my wife, Laurie, startles me by saying that during the first couple of months of my sabbatical, when I was home all the time, there had been 'no energy in the house' and how grateful she is that I’m finally doing something 'purposeful' i…”

— David Shields, amazon.com