Alva Myrdal Quotes

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

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?

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

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

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.

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

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

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

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

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

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

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

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

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.

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 Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

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.

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

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

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

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.