Donald Galloway Quotes

I don’t even know what we were fighting about most of the time. We were staying in the Ronald McDonald House and the walls to those rooms are paper thin. We didn’t want to disturb the other families so instead of screaming we were whispering. We were whispering our screams at each other. One night it was just too much for me to deal with within those quiet walls. I grabbed the keys and whisper-snapped, “I’m going outside.

Apple’s wearables business (Apple Watch, AirPods, and Beats) alone generated over $20 billion in revenue in 2019, making it bigger than McDonald’s.

Facebook attempts to skirt criticism of its content by claiming it’s not a media outlet, but a platform. This sounds reasonable until you consider that the term platform was never meant to absolve companies from taking responsibility for the damage they do. What if McDonald’s, after discovering that 80 percent of their beef was fake and making us sick, proclaimed they couldn’t be held responsible, as they aren’t a fast-food restaurant but a fast-food platform? Would we tolerate that? A Facebook spokesperson, in the face of the controversy, said, “We cannot become arbiters of truth ourselves.”47 Well, you sure as hell can try. If Facebook is by far the largest social networking site, reaching 67 percent of U.S. adults,48 and if more us, each day, are getting our news from it, then Facebook has become, de facto, the largest news media firm in the world. The question is, does news media have a greater responsibility to pursue, and police, the truth? Isn’t that the point of news media?