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Audience Quote by Neil Postman

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“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 audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.”

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We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

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