Ken Auletta Quotes

• The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

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  Media, Digital Revolution, Electricity

  "Ken Auletta: "Digital is almost as disruptive to traditional media as electricity was to the candle business"". Interview with Maite Fernandez, ijnet.org. December 14, 2011.

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• Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

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  Passion, Vision, Batteries

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• The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

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  Humility, Needs, Ephemeral

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• There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

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  Believe, Media, Stories

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• Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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  Teamwork, Independence, Journalist

  Ken Auletta, Terence Smith, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, University of Notre Dame (2005). “Whom do journalists work for?”

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• An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

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  Google, Important, World

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• The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

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  Book, Digital Revolution, Media

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

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  Rivers, Mind, Entertainment

  Ken Auletta (2011). “The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway”, p.107, Random House

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• Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

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  Objectivity, Fairness, Strive

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• Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

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  People, Watches, Television

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

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  Ivy, League, Valleys

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• Passion without focus can lead you astray.

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  Passion, Focus

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• I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

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  Running, War, Thinking

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• Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.

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  Zuckerberg, Platforms, Interest

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

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  School, Government, Engineering

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

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  Editors, Crops, Fingers

  Ken Auletta (2011). “Hard Feelings: Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City”, p.413, Random House

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• Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

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  Journalism, Problem, Owners

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

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  Stanford University, Tree, Forever

  " Get Rich U: There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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