It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.