Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Television is not old enough to have matched printing’s output of junk.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I am also aware of television’s potential for creating a theater for the masses (a subject which in my opinion has not… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“belief that where there is a problem, there must be a solution, I shall conclude with the following suggestions. We must, as… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“This is the lesson of all great television commercials: They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“television’s way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography’s way of knowing; that television’s conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate… — Neil Postman Copy Share
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