Browsing Quotes With Tag: media (16)
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I don’t know what it is for me, but I sometimes feel as if I’m standing on a beach and there are waves smothering me – waves of advertisements for shit I don’t need, of profiles of people who’ve never done anything except be famous, of politicians mouthing platitudes, of hundred of TV channels showing nothing.
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 11:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know what it is for me, but I sometimes feel as if I’m standing on a beach and there are waves smothering me – waves of advertisements for shit I don’t need, of profiles of people who’ve never done anything except be famous, of politicians mouthing platitudes, of hundred of TV channels showing nothing.
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 11:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I would never try to convince someone not to hate the media. As far as I can tell, it’s a completely reasonable thing to hate. Whenever I meet someone who feels a sense of hatred for a large, amorphous body – the media, the government, Ticketmaster, the Illuminati, Anna Nicole Smith, whatever – I fully support their distaste. It’s always better to be mad at something vast and unspecific and theoretical, as these entities cannot sue you for defamation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tangible effect of pornography is roughly the same as the tangible effect of Ozzy Osbourne’s music on stoned Midwestern teenagers: It prompts a small faction of idiots to consider idiotic impulses, which is why we have the word 'idiocy.’
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 7:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perhaps more than anything else, this is the ultimate accomplishment of The Real World: It has validated the merits of having a one-dimensional personality. In fact, it has made that kind of persona desirable, because other one-dimensional personalities can more easily understand you.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Punk Capitalism isn’t about big government or big markets but about a new breed of incredibly efficient networks. This is not digital communism, this isn’t central planning. it is in fact quite the opposite: a new kind of decentralized democracy made possible by changes in technology. Piracy isn’t just another business model, it’s one of the greatest business models we have.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
New youth cultures can’t be as safe as those of days gone by, because if they stay within socially acceptable limits, marketers pounce, and before long they are just another branded spectacle.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can transmit to the world a carefully managed perception of who we are, what we think is cool, what we wear and listen to. We need the network or no one will hear us, but we retain the power. Marketers can’t sell us meaning; we have to find it in their products, and if we do, and we’re passionate about them, we’ll happily tell everyone we can. But by the same token, if a brand or an idea makes one wrong move, it can cause the entire crowd to walk away.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What has changed is the amount of choices we have. We have so much music available to us, the sample size is too large – it’s impossible to observe change. Youth culture can no longer rebel against the status quo in music, because there isn’t one.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The images of the tragedy confirm the world’s paranoia as they are instantly beamed back to the crowds in San Francisco, Beijing, and London. Desensitized viewers are delivered their daily dose of fear; the horrific stats scroll across the bottom of our flickering screens. There is no time for context as the network cuts to commercials.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The idea that youth culture might change things seems naive and quaint in an age where new trends are sold back to us before we even knew they were happening.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Bohemias. Alternative Subcultures. They were a crucial aspect of industrial civilization in the two previous centuries. They were where industrial civilization went to dream. A sort of unconscious R&D, exploring alternate social strategies. Each one would have a dress code, characteristic forms of artistic expression, a substance or substances of choice, and a set of sexual values at odds with those of the culture at large. And they did, frequently, have locales with which they became associated. But they became extinct.”
“Extinct?”
“We started picking them before they could ripen.”Speaker: William GibsonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hip-hop took over from the inside, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But now it’s just a herd of sheep dressed in adorable little limited-edition wolf outfits with dorky matching sneakers and fitted hats. The politics, rage, and rebellion of groups such as Public Enemy have been replaced by a generation more concerned with Public Enemy member Flavor Flav’s VH1 reality show 'Flavor of Love,’ confirming hip-hop’s worst fear: a wack planet.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mainstream news media are being undermined by bloggers and citizen journalists offering a wider variety of local and niche coverage. But they are also regularly beating the pros at the networks to some of the world’s biggest stories. This is happening because journalism doesn’t work quite as it should anymore. As bloggers dig deeper and wider, the mainstream news networks are becoming increasingly shallow.
In June 2005, the major U.S. network and cable television stations ran 6,248 segments on the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. There were 1,534 segments discussing Tom Cruise, and 405 on a runaway bride from Georgia. Dramatic fighting broke out in eastern Sudan that June, an intensely newsworthy event, especially when one takes into account the largely ignored steady-state genocide in Darfur, which had killed more than four hundred thousand people in the previous two years. A total of 126 segments ran mentioning Sudan. Michael Jackson got fifty times more coverage than what was fast becomeing one of the largest humanitarian crises of the decade.Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In America there is no anti-status quo media. It’s all the same four big companies, and they’re all afraid of losing Budweiser so it’s just like, there’s no voice. 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ is the most watched 'news’ program by people under thirty-five and it’s a spoof comedy show. There is a huge market out there of disenfranchised kids.”
Speaker: Shane SmithPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Women get it wrong when they complain about the media images of women. Men understand that not everyone had Bardot’s breasts, or Jamie Lee Curtis’ neck, or Cindy Crawford’s bottom, and we don’t mind at all. Obviously we’d take Kim Basinger over Phyllis Diller, just as women would take Keanu Reeves over Sergeant Bilko, but it’s not the body that’s important, it’s the level of abasement. We worked out very quickly that Bond girls were out of our league, but the realization that women won’t ever look at us the way Ursula Andress looked at Sean Connery, or even in the way that Doris day looked at Rock Hudson, was much slower to arrive, for most of us. In my case, I’m not at all sure that it ever did.
…It’s much harder to get used to the idea that my little-boy notion of romance, of negligees and candlelit dinners at home and long, smoldering glances, had no basis in reality at all. That’s what women ought to get all steamed up about; that’s why we can’t function properly in a relationship. It’s not the cellulite or the crow’s feet. It’s the…the… the disrespect.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!