Electronic Media Quotes

“How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve? For most of us, news of the weather will sometimes have such consequences; for investors, news of the stock market; perhaps an occasional story about a crime will do it, if by chance the crime occurred near where you live or involved someone you know. But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. This fact is the principal legacy of the telegraph: By generating an abundance of irrelevant information, it dramatically altered what may be called the "information-action" ratio.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“My point is that we are by now so thoroughly adjusted to the "Now . . . this" world of news—a world of fragments, where events stand alone, stripped of any connection to the past, or to the future, or to other events—that all assumptions of coherence have vanished. And so, perforce, has contradiction. In the context of no context, so to speak, it simply disappears. And in its absence, what possible interest could there be in a list of what the President says now and what he said then? It is merely a rehash of old news, and there is nothing interesting or entertaining in that.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Within the majority, Pakistani electronic media-figures, suffer from the kinds of schizophrenia and complexes. Such ones penetrate just the selected motives than the neutrality, in fact, they fail and decrease to qualify to be the journalist; indeed, they endorse it themselves.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality- the money with the wealth and the menu with the dinner. We’re starving and eating menus.”
― Alan Watts