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“The defining characteristic of today's intellectual and media elite is that it swims merrily in a sea of fantasy. The world of television is…

— Richard M. Nixon

Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates…

— Noam Chomsky

Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these…

— Virginia Postrel

“The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on…

— Bauvard

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening…

— Thom Yorke

“The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. It expands the void, the mindlessness that makes…

— Chris Hedges

“It is interesting to note that in announcing the formation of the National Broadcasting Company, the Radio Corporation of America published a newspaper advertisement…

— Judith C. Waller

Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can…

— Anand Giridharadas

“If you think the movie moguls are worried about the possible disastrous effects of TV, you ought to hold the head of a radio…

— Val Holley

“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

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

— Richard J. Daley