Chris Lowe Quotes

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

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

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

We do live in this age of new media.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.