Ken Auletta famous quotes

05-20-2025

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.
-- Ken Auletta

#Humility #Needs #Ephemeral
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
-- Ken Auletta

#Passion #Vision #Batteries
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
-- Ken Auletta

#Book #Media #Records
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
-- Ken Auletta

#Tree #Forever #Sunny
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
-- Ken Auletta

#People #Watches #Television
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
-- Ken Auletta

#Ivy #League #Valleys
The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.
-- Ken Auletta

#Media #Digital #Revolution
An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
-- Ken Auletta

#Google #Important #World
Passion without focus can lead you astray.
-- Ken Auletta

#Passion #Focus
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
-- Ken Auletta

#Editors #Crops #Fingers
Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
-- Ken Auletta

#Journalism #Problem #Owners
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
-- Ken Auletta

#Teamwork #Independence #Journalist
I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.
-- Ken Auletta

#Running #War #Thinking

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