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" Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed. "

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Shane Smith

I Am

Change

Chance

" Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality. "

" If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea. "

" My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. "

Shane Smith

Iran

Country

" I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth. "

" The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.' "

" When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. "

" Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.' "

" American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. "

" People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care. "

" I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. "

" The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective. "

Shane Smith

You

Journalism

" If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that. "

" I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker. "

" I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no. "

Shane Smith

Place

Internet

" I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. "

" Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story. "

" Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them. "

Shane Smith

Realize

You

" One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.' "

Shane Smith

Canada

Back

" I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other. "

" I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose. "

" I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp. "

Shane Smith

Within

Want

" TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different. "

Shane Smith

Different

Chances

" The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do. "

" If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world. "

" Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere. "

" I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them. "

Shane Smith

Pretty

World

" There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal. "

" I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. "

" I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants. "