Drew Curtis
Drew Curtis
Drew Curtisis the founder and an administrator of Fark.com, an Internet news aggregator. He is also the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. He is a guest on WOCM's morning show The Rude Awakening Show every Tuesday. Curtis was the Independent Gubernatorial candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 2015, but then lost to the Republican Nominee Matt Bevin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 February 1973
CountryUnited States of America
Drew Curtis quotes about
Occasionally I'll stick something up there that I'll know will ignite controversy, but I'm trying to keep that down to around one per week.
ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.
Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.
Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.
You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.
Journalism is straying into entertainment.
Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.
24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.
I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.
Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.