Jerrod Carmichael Quotes

Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

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

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

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

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

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

TV news is not very instructive.

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

Television and I grew up together.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

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.

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?'

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

In terms of social media, I try to have my voice heard loudly in the cacophony of other influences whether from television and the Internet or social media... I want my voice to be heard in terms of the standards and values that I try to pass on to my kids.

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!