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Serious Quotes by Neil Postman
- I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it…
- In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is…
- TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,…
- Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But…
- The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In…
- When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form…
- I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to…
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