A biography for Tim Poolhasn’t been written yet.
“As soon as I saw Google Glass, I realised that it would allow me to do what I always do with this first-person live recording, but my hands would be free.”
“Some people don't trust the media.”
“Vice were the first company to say 'we know exactly what you do, we think it's awesome, and we want you to do more of it.”
“The content I produce isn't coming at the behest of a corporation or a government.”
“The only defense you have against police violence is to film it and share it so people are aware of what's happening.”
“A lot of documentaries are biased - they leave out a lot of information.”
“Unbeknownst to me, I started doing journalism, just because I was bearing witness.”
“I do news.”
“I don't want to stand filming in front of the water cannon and guys with Molotovs. I want to show you what it's like to be there as best I can, even if that ends with me running full-speed into a cafe and rubbing lemons all over my face after being tear-gassed.”
“What you see from these tech companies - Facebook, YouTube, Twitter - they control the space and they control the speech.”
“I am terrified of a future where people will not share their opinions because people are being banned or ostracized.”
“I try not to judge people.”
“I consider myself an activist, but I'm never a protestor.”
“I want to know why things are happening.”
“Parler actually challenged Twitter.”
“You never know when you might become the most important journalist in the world.”
“When I was growing up, it was the religious conservatives that had the moral panic about music and swear words.”
“No one tells me what I can and can't report on, and no one tells me what to say.”
“I've seen news organizations outright just take photos from Instagram and use it for news without credit, without permission.”
“I've resisted the tag 'citizen journalist' - that's not what I am.”