I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.