Tim Hetherington Quotes

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

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.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

The key question facing those of us working in the media (old and new) is whether we embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected. There is no question that, as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be - and needs to be - a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

In a television age, the record is lame; it never catches up.

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

I think 'Slate''s editorial staff understands the intersection of journalism and technology better than any other.

I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.

Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.

I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

The world is changing and how we reach people has changed. It's no longer throwing ads on your network and putting up billboards. It's now social media and things move virally, and the networks haven't always caught up to that.