Chelsea Clinton Quotes

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 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?'

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

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

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

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

I only know what I read in the papers.

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

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

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

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

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 didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

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!

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

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.

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

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

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

I don't watch the media that much.