“[Any time any medium attempts to find humor in darkness, it can sometimes clank one off the rim.] Not every Onion story is a gem, ... And I've been offended by plenty of stories ripped from the headlines by Dick Wolf or Commander in Chief. Do we dismiss print? Do we downgrade all TV? Or do we blame the writers who missed the mark?”
“[The Internet, as a decentralized communications network, can be more resilient than traditional media when natural disasters occur.] Owning broadcast towers and printing presses were useless, ... The Web proved to be a better media in a case like this.”
“If someone is coming from a particular location, a certain ad may be more popular there, ... The system can use all the signals available, and the system itself learns the correlations between them.”