Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

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

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.