From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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Related I found that it was hard to find a publisher for a book about a now-defunct dairy company. BRIAN BUTKO I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is... BILL GATES It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even ... KEITH OLBERMANN When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's ... JUNIOR SEAU I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today. YITZHAK SHAMIR In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ... LAURA WADE Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really ex... JACKIE EVANCHO Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In ... BRIAN KEENE When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about... BOB IGER And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through th... PETER GARRETT You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is t... ROY YAMAGUCHI I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff.... BILL ACKMAN I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to cons... PATRICK WHITESELL It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered ... HARI KONDABOLU Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their poli... MARVIN AMMORI I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry a... AL FRANKEN My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturd... ROBERT ENGLUND I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the of... GARTH RISK HALLBERG I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I thin... LESLEY GORE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There's a process in the movie industry in both live action and animation called development hel... RON CLEMENTS The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial argumen... DON ROSE GM was [the] toast of the domestic industry in 2001. Now it appears that it had at least some help f... DARREN KIMBALL It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.' NIKKI SIXX My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a... TED TURNER The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It w... WILLIAM JOYCE How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word call... MARCO RUBIO The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructi... TOYIN ODUTOLA What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep... DAVID GERROLD New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new med... BEN HUH From about the late 1970s to 2001, the catfish industry had a steady growth. JAMEY CLARY I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing hap... JOE WRIGHT As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It's a part of our everyday live... JUSTINE SKYE The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ... STEPHEN FRY The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number o... JOE WURZELBACHER You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket scie... MICHAEL POLLAN That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There'... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy. BOB BROWN I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang glidin... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I ... PATSY CLINE With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectation... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying... BUSTA RHYMES I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. LEON WIESELTIER 'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of ... REBECCA TRAISTER I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator ... PATRICK COLLISON The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called... NAZANIN BONIADI A flourishing industry of so-called 'information brokers' now openly advertises its ability to obtai... JAMES LEACH I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used ... VANESSA BAYER There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspap... RUPERT MURDOCH Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me... EVE BUNTING I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if ... DANA PERINO And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors... CHRIS ANDERSON It's so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it's this monster that consu... CAZZIE DAVID On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoen... ASAP ROCKY My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who&... ADAM MCKAY That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that... LAURA BENANTI With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environ... ROBIN MCLEAVY The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which con... JERRY YANG I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after... STEVEN WRIGHT The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thi... ARVIND GUPTA It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an ... IMRAN AMED 'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was abo... DAVE PELZER I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at t... ELIZA COUPE One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff'... ASHTON SHEPHERD Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the ke... MASAYOSHI SON I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the re... JANE SIBERRY At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ... DENNIS WHARTON There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about i... CHRIS PAVONE In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media ex... PADMASREE WARRIOR About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americ... ANN COULTER It was, realistically, a tough sell, despite the industry and media hype. It's incredibly tricky to ... BRANDON GRAY Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for his... STEF WERTHEIMER I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's ... EDDIE VEDDER I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kin... SARAH HYLAND There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's... JAMES WOLK Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse. CESAR ROMERO Twice now they've dropped the ball where we've learned about something happening with our son from o... CAROLYN MAUPIN It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was ... COLIN FIRTH I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me n... DANIEL H. WILSON Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on o... ANTHONY GOLDBLOOM Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a ... CURTIS JACKSON So I called Tim (about the advertising tax) and said ... 'You know, I think this is a mistake.' He c... CODY KNOTTS If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit... SETH SHOSTAK There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about th... ALEC BALDWIN Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us. ROBERT WAGNER It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media inter... 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