Dana Loesch Quotes

I sincerely believe blogging can save America.

I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world — a Fifth Estate alongside the other power structures of society. People no longer have to rely on traditional gatekeepers in politics or media to make their voices heard, and that has important consequences.

Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just from Twitter and Instagram. I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.

The alternative to the corporate media is a renaissance of citizen journalism emerging around world - exploring the different avenues that do exist, like podcasts, to tell whatever story you want to tell.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging.