Christopher Lasch 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.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

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

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.

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

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.

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

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!

When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

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

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

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.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

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.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

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

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

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

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

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

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.