Barack Obama Quotes

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

The future of politics is performance.

If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there’d be silence in America.

Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

Selling and telling are two different things. In politics, we sell ideas.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go away. And it flies out of some region of his brain and it goes out into the ether. And usually it's on the realm of media.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

Twitter is a global town square.

The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.

Social media really grew up.

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .