Aaron Levie Quotes
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
Levie, Aaron (@levie). "Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper..." X, X Corp., 3 Nov. 2015.
Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.
He was comparing newspapers to the Internet as a news source.
Catledge came to California to cover the gubernatorial race between incumbent Republican Governor Merriam and writer Upton Sinclair, an avowed socialist who was running neck and neck. Palmer was then the Political Editor of the Los Angeles Times and his newspaper never covered anything Sinclair did for the campaign and only covered Merriam. Catledge observed that this was not only unfair but poor journalism.
It was not true in 1922, nor has it been true since despite the fact that this is claimed and sincerely believed by some Americans. This has been a canard of a small minority of conservatives and radical leftists.
Ronald Reagan’s media expert, Michael Deaver, developed a new approach to Presidential appearances. He realized that if the President made a 5 or 10 minute speech at an event, the Evening News would choose one or two 10-15 second excerpts, and that was what the vast majority of the country would see. Therefore, he reasoned, the words spoken meant relatively little. It was the image what would last in people’s memory. Therefore, he worked hard to concentrate on getting the right background for the President’s appearance. The Statue of Liberty, a naval ship, a factory at work. The set of images that people would have of the President in these different appearances would define the President in the minds of most people. Deaver would be more concerned that the TV camera’s showed the background scene he had planned (rather than a strange angle or just a close-up of the President’s face) than he would be about which words—sound bytes—the TV station would select. Hence Baker’s observation that words were less important than the TV images.
America was entering the First World War as a combatant but there was considerable anti-war sentiment. The Wilson administration over-reacted and instituted many repressive laws and regulations. Leading Americans like Eugene Debs was jailed for several years simply for opposing the war and the military conscription that went with it. Our scientists were not allowed to receive German scientific journals which of course hurt us and not the Germans who read their research and ours.
Sherman felt that the newspapers of North and South fired up hatred of one side against the other and especially in the South, falsely reported the chances of the Confederacy and made rational Southerners who wanted to minimize the death and destruction to their people were made to feel like traitors and cowards.
Tweed was the powerful boss of New York City’s corrupt political machine—Tammany Hall. The newspapers had been attacking Tweed and Tammany Hall for several years but they never resonated with the public. The cartoons of Thomas Nast however were not only understood by illiterates, but the cartoons caused an emotional reaction against Weed and his organization which led to their downfall.
Aaron Winsor Levie (pronounced /ˈærən ˈlɛvi/) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box.
