Kenneth Oppel Quotes

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

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I don't watch the media that much.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

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

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

All the media are horrible.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

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

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

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

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.