Neil Postman Quotes

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

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

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

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

I apologize for what the media has done.

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

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Whoever said I hated the media?

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

The media do strange things.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

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

I don't watch the media that much.

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.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

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

All the media are horrible.