Rupert Friend Quotes

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.

I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

A laboring man now hardly goes to work until he has read the news.

Newspapers always excite curiosity.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

… printed newspapers on actual paper may be a luxury item. It’s sort of like … people still have horses, but it’s not their primary way of commuting to the office.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal - when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn't talk about investigative journalism, even though that's our core.

I understand the art of PR, social media, gossip, and what that does for businesses, so I don't really trip off of it.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

I think that the social media space is great because that's where my bread and butter is, but I want to jump into doing traditional media and other fun things.

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Social media puts reciprocity on steroids because now you can reach more people in more ways to do more things for them faster and at lower expense. Positive word about your reciprocity can spread faster than ever.