#mediaquotes

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Because an outline isn’t really writing. It’s construction, assemblage of elements in order. It’s structural. It’s finding the shape of the story. It’s not writing. Writing happens when you’re telling the story: it’s the human breath inside it, it’s finding the interactions and responses around planned events in the moment of living them in the story, it’s the act of discovering all the nuances and sounds of the story as you fully tell it. MOBY DICK is a straightforward outline but the outline doesn’t prepare you for the qualities of the story as it is told. You cannot predict every second of what the story will tell. And if you try to? You’re just transcribing a technical document. Insert previously machined “emotion button” here. I can show you the frame of a story in advance, but I can’t tell you what colour the wallpapers will be until I’ve started living in the place. You live it in the telling, and you can’t plan it all out in advance without ending up with a lifeless story. Warren Ellis, 2024 Orbital Operation

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Let me think a minute...

List five things you do for fun.1. Write2. Laugh3. Read4. Listen to music5. Social MediaQuote by Albert Einstein: “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”https://www.goodreads.com › quotesQuote by Albert Einstein: “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Goodreads I have been working on the design of my website which hasn’t allowed much time for writing the past few days. Quoting Einstein, I…

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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) struck and disabled Aleppo International Airport on the night of 15 October.Source: The Times of Israel, referring to Syrian mediaQuote: "A Syrian pro-government media outlet says Israel’s military has attacked the international airport of the northern city of Aleppo, putting it out of service."Details: Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reports that the strike hit the runway of Aleppo airport, rendering it unfit for use just hours after it was repaired following a similar Israeli strike on Thursday.The attack on Aleppo airport came shortly after two missiles were fired from Syria on the Golan Heights.Background:Ukrainska Pravda is the place where you will find the most up-to-date information about everything related to the war in Ukraine. Follow us on Twitter, support us, or become our patron!

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The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape

William Badke

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Facebook said in 2012 that it was "95% of all social media" in the United States 2020

Facebook said in 2012 that it was "95% of all social media" in the United States 2020

In 2012, Facebook said it made up "95% of all social media in the United States".

The claim came in a marketing presentation that she wanted to present to the then Vodafone board of directors.

Facebook is now facing an intensive antitrust review and has changed its rhetoric. It claims that it faces strong competition from many sides.

On Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that it still…

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I believe the media can be the greatest force for peace on Earth, because it provides a forum for people to hear each other. And that’s the beginning of understanding. And understanding is the beginning of peace.

Amy Goodman, speaking with Dave Isay, "Callings": In "Radical" New Book, StoryCorps Honors the Voices of Unsung U.S. Workers, DemocracyNow!, Thursday, May 6, 2016

[bruvu]

"mass media, the mother tongue of the twentieth century"

By Jackson Arn

October 2, 2023

[bruvu]

Engagement can lead to a variety of positive outcomes like social media engagement, listener-driven questions, attendance at your events and new relationships between your newsroom and the public, among others. Equipping, however, is about agency. It’s about providing access and opportunities for public participation and production. Equipping is about teaching and interconnected learning. It’s about exchanging skills and resource. It’s a redistribution of power between institutions and individuals.

Don’t Just Engage, Equip

Daryl Holliday, @d_holli   2019

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Twitter hid Trump's tweet that mocked CNN and marked it as "manipulated media." 2020

Twitter hid Trump's tweet that mocked CNN and marked it as "manipulated media." 2020

On Friday, Twitter hid a doctoral video that Donald Trump had posted on the social media platform. The video was treated with CNN footage that indicates that racism is a fictional problem that is said to provoke public outrage.

The move took place after Twitter had previously described the tweet as "manipulated media".

In response to Trump's tweet about the video dealt, CNN insiders said he…

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Facebook to label "state-controlled media" and ban US ads before the elections 2020

Facebook to label "state-controlled media" and ban US ads before the elections 2020

Facebook has started to apply labels to state-owned media companies – news publishers that it sees as "wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government" – the company said in one blog entry Thursday.

"We believe that people should know if the news they are reading comes from a publication that may be government-influenced," the company said, "because it is under the…

[bruvu]

From a standpoint of starting as a comics writer, working in other media... well, I've come to think of it like this. The first stage is an exercise in withholding information. In comics scripts, we need to find the picture for the artist --  even if the picture is demonstrably stupid and wrong, we need to find it first, so the artist isn't left thrashing around trying to work out what we want or need, which is a waste of their valuable time and energy. So there's some particular specificity in describing the visuals, written in a pretty informal way. In screenwriting, that's called "directing on the page." In prose, it freezes the image so it can't take flight in the reader's mind. So there's a certain stepping-down of the informational load in order to take advantage of the effects that other media afford. That's the craft-based example I use when I'm asked about this, just to illustrate that every artform operates in a different way, and effects don't always translate between them.

Warren Ellis, 2018

The Comics Journal

[bruvu]

we do need an aesthetic, because an aesthetic is how you convince other people that the beauty has arrived.

Bruce Sterling

The WELL: State of the World 2019

[bruvu]

Not a single person noticed that I had stopped using social media. (Not enough to tell me anyway.) Perhaps if it had been two weeks? For me, this reinforced that social media is actually not a good way to “stay connected with friends”. Social media aggregates interactions between loved ones so that you get industrialized communication rather than personal connection. No one really notices if a particular person goes missing because they’re just one interchangeable node in a network.

My social media fast

Jason Kottke

[bruvu]

What I can talk about is art, and how a museum can make people care about it. If historical art is now a hard sell, and it is, learn to sell it hard. That means, among other things, start telling the truth about it: about who made objects, and how they work in the world, and how they got to the museum, and what they mean, what values they advertise, good and bad. Go for truth (which, like the telling of history, is always changing), and connect art to life. Mix things up: periods, functions, cultures. (You can always unmix them.) Let audiences see that old is always new, if viewed through knowledge. To present art this way — to pitch it, advocate it, make it snap to life — is to rethink the basic dynamic of a museum, turn it from passive to active, from archival to interactive, while letting it be all of these.

Holland Cotter, 2017

How to Fix the Met: Connect Art to Life

(Cotter talks about art and a museum, but what he says should be done could be useful for any news media.)

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#mediaquote

[bruvu]

The internet is the people’s press. It is a machine that spreads power.

Attacks on the People’s Press. Trump’s war on TikTok and Murdoch’s on… | by Jeff Jarvis | Whither news? | Sep, 2020 | Medium