Jimmy Gomez Quotes

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

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!

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

I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.

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

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I don't watch the media that much.

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.

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

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.

Don't hate the media, become the media.