John Cho Quotes

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

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!

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

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

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.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

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?'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

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.

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.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

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?

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

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

What we watch on television, we approve.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.