"Given their dominance in the cable television marketplace, the proposed merger would give Applicants the ability to turn a consumer’s Internet experience into something that more closely resembles cable television. It would set up an ecosystem that calls into question what we to date have taken for granted: that a consumer who pays for connectivity to the Internet will be able to get the content she requests."
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- Netflix, in a petition to the FCC opposing a proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger
"This encourages young girls that they can do something behind the camera, not just in front. When something like this happens, it normalizes the situation. We need to rise each other up. When young directors male or female come in, we need to allow them to shadow us -- studios and executive producers need to give these young upcoming filmmakers a shot."
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- director Gail Mancuso, who earned her second Emmy Monday night for her work on "Modern Family"
"It's not about the twerking. It's about the music."
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- Miley Cyrus, appearing on the red carpet ahead of the MTV Video Music Awards
" A common complaint in the industry is that the millennial generation steals music, but that’s not accurate: Young music fans want artists to get paid – they just don’t want to be the ones paying. Enter corporations. Technology now allows consumers to share music without walls, and that’s been the driving force behind brands’ ability to lean into music."
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- Keith Clinkscales, CEO of REVOLT Media & TV
"You can't beat people with the Latin stick. Even Hispanics don't want that. It's so much easier to start your own network than to try to get the 8 p.m. time slot on ABC. If there are more than 10 people trying to get through the same door, you have to find a new door. There was very little competition for this network. Only around 100 people applied for the slot. And how many of those had a solid business plan like ours? Probably only five."
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- Robert Rodriquez on the dearth of Hispanic TV channels in the U.S., and how his El Rey network fills a niche
"This underscores why the FCC must extend the principles of net neutrality beyond the 'last mile' and prohibit paid prioritization arrangements between ISPs and edge providers. Netflix is valuable because it commissions original content and because it distributes others' content for which it pays license fees. But as paid prioritization takes hold of digital distribution, Netflix -- however reluctantly -- will come to resemble the deep-pocketed gatekeepers that dominate traditional media."
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- Statement from the Writers Guild of America East on the Netflix/Time Warner Cable deal for direct internet connections
"Few things are more frustrating than your children refusing to answer your calls or respond to your text messages…. (Now) your child has only two options -- he or she can call you back, or call for an emergency responder. No calls to friends, no text, no games, not until they call you back. When they do, you can unlock their phone if you choose to do so. How's that for parental control?"
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- Sharon Standifird, the Houston-area mom who created the “Ignore No More” app, on the product’s website
"While likes have become a way for pages to prove their size within Facebook’s ecosystem, unless they reflect users’ true preferences, they don’t do much for Facebook itself."
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- LockerDome Activation Lead Dan Wade, on Facebook's new "like" policy change, to Cynsiders.
"Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention."
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- Senator Rand Paul yesterday in a piece for Time.com about the Ferguson, MO shooting.
"At the start of trading, SeaWorld’s stock price fell harder than Shamu after a bad jump. "
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- Ben Geier (fortune.com) writing about the 32.18% drop in Seaworld share price at the opening of yesterday's NYSE after disappointing 2nd quarter results. Seaworld's Sea-EO Jim Atchison blamed a later school year and negative media attention.
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