In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question. - Neil Postman

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore — and this is the critical point — how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.

Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.