Michael O'Keefe Quotes

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

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

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!

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

The media doesn't educate anyone.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

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.

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

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

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?

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.

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.

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

I only know what I read in the papers.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

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.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

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.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.