"If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show wou..."
- Edward R. Murrow
"We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business."
"A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the ..."
- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it st..."
- Matthew Polly
"Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?"
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated q..."
- Neil Postman
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."
"I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.' 'You're the television? Or someone in the..."
- Neil Gaiman
"He blamed television, movies, and books for his love of ghosts. It was a fascination that’s been with him since his youth. He always loved watching or reading anything that had to do with ghosts and h..."
- Jason Medina
"Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the s..."
- Seth Godin