[W]hen a message is squeezed through a twenty-second news spot, so much can be lost that what is left will fail to move anyone enough to make them turn off the set and actually do something. Meanwhile, the viewers will believe that they have learned everything they need to know on that subject and will be bored the next time they hear it. Jerry Mander
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
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Joss Whedon
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?.. It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?.. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Fred Rogers
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Groucho Marx
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
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Roald Dahl
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
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Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes By Jerry Mander
[T]he problem was too much information. The population was being inundated with conflicting versions of increasingly complex events. People were giving up on understanding anything. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. Overload. It encouraged passivity, not involvement.
If you accept mass production, you accept that a small number of people will supervise the daily existence of a much larger number of people. You accept that human beings will spend long hours, every day, engaged in repetitive work, while suppressing any desires for...
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
Advertising expresses a power relationship .. . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the few against the many for a trivial purpose.
If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are...
