Paul Weyrich Quotes

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

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

Television is intensely personal.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

Television was essentially my college.

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

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

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

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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

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

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

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.

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

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.