Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

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.

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

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.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

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

I think I look at media differently than anyone older would.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Television is a young person's medium.

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.

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

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

We do live in this age of new media.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

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.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.