When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.

[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).

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

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.

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

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

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