There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.
I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.
Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?
Me paso media vida pidiéndote disculpas. Pero merece la pena por el solo hecho de estar contigo y ver tu cara cuando me perdonas.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day, but seven or eight of those are doing my schoolwork.
In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.
I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.
New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
