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Television Quotes by Neil Postman
- For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las…
- Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea…
- The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on…
- If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the…
- 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…
- It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the…
- [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The…
- The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.…
- Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes…
- Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false…
- Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your…
- People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances…
- 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…
More Television Quotes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd
- A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a… — Michele Bachmann
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball
- The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
- My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana