Neil Postman Quotes

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

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.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

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

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

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

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

I am not looking at my TV show to change the world.

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

I have grown up in a small city where watching TV is a ritual and Balaji has defined TV in so many ways.

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.

Television can only destroy.