Sai Pallavi Quotes

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Television is a young person's medium.

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.