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IMAGINATION // Orange Magazine // A Fresh, Ferocious Wave

Imagination's multi-media book examining
the future of the publishing industry.

What is a fresh, ferocious wave?

Quotes

  • I think we’ll see content that’s a deeper, better hybrid of audio, video and print emerge, and that will become the default expectation of people.

    Kurt Andersen
    journalist and author

  • In many respects the great contribution of Fox News was to demonstrate the commercial viability of a more aggressively partisan approach to the news; it was in demonstrating that when one went more aggressively partisan, it was easier to dispense with actual (and costly) journalism because viewers focused on celebrity hosts and political operatives who pedaled spin for free.

    The Death and Life of American Journalism

  • I observe that as print circulation falls, the growth of the online audience is dramatic. Newspapers don’t have a demand problem; they have a business-model problem.

    Eric Schmidt
    Chairman and CEO of Google

  • This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.

    Woody Guthrie

  • As the monoculture fragments, social-media platforms and other wired and unwired communities are creating new kinds of connections-connections that are building bridges between people in ways that watching Seinfeld never could. But [Stanford University communications professor Clifford] Nass says they're not likely to be the kinds of connections that will hold a nation together.

    Laura Sydell
    NPR

  • Never before have we had so many tools to learn and to communicate. Yet the art of talking, listening and ascertaining the truth seems more elusive than ever in this Internet and cable age, lost in a bitter stream of blather and misinformation.

    Maureen Dowd
    Columnist, New York Times

  • When procedural mechanisms fail, the press is the last resort for the public to find out the truth.

    Barry Scheck, co-founder
    Innocence Project at the Medill School of Journalism

  • The goal must be to create a vastly superior news media that dramatically enhances the constitutional system and representative democracy.

    The Death and Life of American Journalism

  • I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding.

    President Barack Obama