Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

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.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

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.

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.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

I grew up watching television. I'm a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn't look like me.

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

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

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

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.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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.

There is no dignity in television.

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

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