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
[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
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be… — 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
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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