“So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.” PeopleHas BeensMadeGovernmentTodayNamesResultsPolicyTelevisionDirectRadioConsentBehalfGovernment PolicyInformed Consent Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.” PeopleWayIdeasWantedFilmFightingResultsHellTelevisionMountainIndependentGood IdeasDistributionIndependent Film Author:Joel Surnow
“I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.” ThinkingFeelsLooksAbleCertainGamesSportsResultsWatchesTelevisionDecidedBoundsLook UpCheatReplay Author:A. S. Byatt
“Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.” UsedResultsFiguresTelevisionPoliticianComputerResearchScientistScreensRhetoricTransmitPunditsPublic FiguresComputer Screen Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.” TryingChildrenLittlesDifferentPlayTodaySocialParentResultsDealsTeacherPlayerSharePositionTelevisionMetsAuthorityTasksDoctorsWorkersContraryProducersScoreMultitudesOrchestraHelplessnessInferiorityConductorSocial WorkerMaestro Author:Kenneth Keniston
“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.” ThinkingWantNeedsOrderResultsTelevisionIndustryShoesNewspapersAdvertisingExpensiveMumTrainersIncessantlyVideogameAdvertising IndustryTesco Author:Tom Hodgkinson