Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

We have to deal in 30 second sound bites. It's not your fault. It's not our fault.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.

Are we diminishing the bully pulpit to a pulpit of bull?

Even if America is unlikely to descend into another civil war, our present trajectory carries huge risks. Millennials may take charge of the country without much memory of a functional Congress, tolerant public discourse, or social circles that transcend our atomized subcultures. Today’s college students can scarcely recall a life free of internet trolls!

It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

The trolls don't realise that they are actually helping me become more popular, and in return, I am helping them grab a celebrity's attention. I think my trolls and I are very good friends.

The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.

We have witnessed a stunning reversal of power between mainstream and social media: The ability to go direct to end users of information through social channels radically disrupted the mainstream news agenda.

Social media enables us to talk about issues, shine a light on problems, and raise awareness of struggles that might have gone unnoticed. On the flipside, it also allows for a lot of noise and distractions. Sometimes it doesn't create the best environment for a healthy discussion and can lead to trolling.

In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.