“That's what we mean when we say our nation has been exceptional. Not that we've been flawless from the start, but that we've been able to change.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“Tonight it is my turn to say thanks. Whether we have seen eye-to-eye, or rarely agreed at all, the conversations I have had with you [...] have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going. And every day I have learned from you”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“You can tell that I'm a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions! Everyone have a seat.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“Sometimes you hear that really nice guys get hot girls. But I found that really nice guys get really nice girls. Being nice is not really buying you any currency in the attractiveness realm. If the guys are hot, too, then sure, they can get a hot girl.’”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.”— James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are. The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographic…”— Michael Wear, theatlantic.com
“The age of cable news changed our media distribution model by creating a 24 hour news cycle, which meant finding more information and more analysis (THE SUMMER OF SHARKS!) to keep viewers watching. The age of digital news has changed the distribution model in a much larger way: news consumers have t…”— Daniel Ketchell, medium.com
“People believe what they already want to believe, and they want news that already agrees with how they feel. It isn’t new and it isn’t going away.”— Zachary Kagan, medium.com
“This is what scares establishment media types more than anything, not that people are spreading bullshit but that they are no longer in control of what bullshit gets spread.”— Zachary Kagan, medium.com
“Why do good work when studies show that this is actually a deterrent to social sharing?”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“The Observer knows that the headline ‘Dave Chappelle Told Jokes About Politics’ is going to do less well than its sensational headline about him defending Trump and trashing Clinton (just as TMZ knew they could get traffic out of baiting Chappelle into responding). Just as you know deep down that mo…”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“fake news is probably closer to the actual heritage of journalism than truth-telling is.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“Watching the news will always make you feel like the world is ending. The world isn’t ending. The world is changing.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Pay more attention to what’s going on in the world. If you struggle to keep up with the news like I do, just make simple changes in your life. Set a news site as your browser home page. Follow Twitter accounts or Facebook pages that provide daily updates in your newsfeed”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“There are nowadays so many ways of accessing information on the Internet without ever coming across the informed contribution of journalism. It is so important, then, that our children - all of our citizens - be encouraged to think critically rather than merely reproduce the information pushed towar…”— Michael D Higgins, irishtimes.com
“A new politics of fear, resentment and prejudice against those who are not ‘like us’ requires the capacity to critique, which an early exposure to the themes and methods of philosophy can bring.”— Michael D Higgins, irishtimes.com
“This is the state of truth on the internet in 2016, now that it is as easy for a Macedonian teenager to create a website as it is for The New York Times, and now that the information most likely to find a large audience is that which is most alarming, not most correct.”— Jessi Hempel, backchannel.com
“There is plenty to do in this world, and plenty to be vigilant about. But let’s stop pretending that the ticker-tape of the news feed is anything other than what it is: addiction and manipulation masquerading as a social good. Then we wonder why we’re sapped of reason and willpower and perspective.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com