Gordon Strachan Quotes

Television is a young person's medium.

I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

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.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

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?

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

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.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

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.

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

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

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.