Steven Johnson Quotes

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

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.

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 do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

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.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

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.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

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

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

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

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 don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America.

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.