[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

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.