Media Quotations:

≥Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture≤. Allen Ginsberg, American poet and author

≥The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.≤ David Brinkley, American TV network news anchor

≥I have advocated for 30 years that, in order to preserve our democracy and protect ourselves against demagogues, we should have courses in schools on how to watch TV, how to read newspapers, how to analyze a speech ≠ how to understand the limitations of each medium and make a judgment as to the accuracy or the motives involved.≤ Walter Cronkite, retired news anchor for CBS television network.

≥It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social clichÈ and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter, important news from coverage.≤ Ernest Boyer, past president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and former U.S. Commissioner of Education

"Television isn't a medium. It's a small." Unknown

≥Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if
you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." Alfred Hitchcock

≥Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks." Eric Sevareid

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your own living room by people you wouldn't have in your home≤ David Frost.

"The TV business ... is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs." Hunter S. Thompson

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." Rod Serlingof tht visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been thce, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality." Michael Arlen, "Some Notes on Television Criticism," The View from Highway One, p. 9.Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality." Michael Arlen, "Some Notes on Television Criticism," The View from Highway One, p. 9.