Old enough Quote by Neil Postman Download Open image ““Television is not old enough to have matched printing’s output of junk.”” — Neil Postman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old enough Productivity
“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.” — David Simon Copy Share Image
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It's too bad that television needs so much material and does not leave time for quality writing. That's one of the things I have… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare not well done. ” — Ernie Kovacs Copy Share Image
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil's observation that 'Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.'… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing," he said. "But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be… — Frank Beddor Copy Share
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“All cultures in human history have believed in God and an afterlife in eternity. There is an interesting story told about the parents of a small child who had lost their faith in God. They had become resolute atheists. When the child was old enough they felt that it was time to share with him that they no longer believed… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share
“One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can… — Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send… — Sarah Connor Copy Share
“And then, the last words Raspail ever said: 'I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them.'… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
“I would like to make arrangements with you--to take her as my wife. Not right away, of course. When she grows old enough.” The young warrior straightened his shoulders. “I will pay a fine bride price, fifty horses and ten blankets.” Hunter smothered a grin. After a year of raiding, Swift Antelope had only ten horses. How much horse stealing… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share
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