Western civilization Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the…

— Carl Sandburg

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the…

— Kari Skogland

If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we…

— Philip Auslander

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a…

— J. Michael Straczynski

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

— Edwin Newman

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

— Roger Rees

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open…

— Serge Daney

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

— Janet Street-Porter

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey.

— Nancy Dubuc

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

— Ann Landers

“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not…

— Neil Postman