Tom Bissell Quotes

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

I love video.

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

Television is taking over the Internet.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

I love livestreaming, I think it's awesome and my fans really like it.