“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
“Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.” KnowsLittlesPersonsGovernmentDifferencesAudienceTelevisionPersonalityChineseRatingChinese GovernmentAmerican Television Author:Tom Brokaw
“Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.” WorldGovernmentSchoolStepsCareersPolicyTelevisionFellowsPressesCorporatePublishingHarvardPublic Policy Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolSocialInterestingSecurityTelevisionEmotionalPersonalityIntellectualWorkersRadioVariousUnemploymentSocial SecurityAssuredSurvivingStimulusSustainingDiversionSchool EducationHealth Services Book:The Pentagon of Power Source: The Pentagon of Power
“His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.” IfsKnowsMeanGovernmentAudienceTelevisionPleaseProgramAdministrationSponsors Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.” FirstsSometimesHomeSeemsGovernmentWould BeFilmNiceViolenceWorstTelevisionHeavyRapAdvertisingProgrammingSwimmingMetalsAmendmentsPornographyFirst AmendmentDaydreamingOutlawHeavy MetalNannies Author:Molly Ivins
“I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.” IfsThinkingGovernmentRightsDoorsTelevisionHost Author:Michael Moriarty
“Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.” GovernmentCoursesTelevisionBritainGrantsLicenseMonopolyBroadcasters Author:David Attenborough
“In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.” ArtGovernmentChristianFormReligiousViewsTelevisionMajorsInstitutionsEntertainmentPostsMotion PicturesImposition Author:D. James Kennedy
“[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.” IfsWellsCountryProblemGovernmentRunningPoliticalAudienceTelevisionPoliticianTemptationSupposed To BeConventions Author:Ron Paul
“Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.” IfsGovernmentTurnsFatherDoubtTelevisionDictatorshipRepresentativesProletariatRepresentative GovernmentFloundering Author:Fred Reed
“Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.” PeopleIfsMeanChildrenRealityGovernmentSchoolLinesPovertyAirConditionsCarTelevisionColorLowsProgramPhonesHungryIncomeCellsOfficialsNeighborhoodDevicesLunchTruckEntitlementCell PhoneOverweightOvensUnheardLow IncomeMicrowavesEntitlement ProgramsSchool LunchElectronic DevicesColor Television Author:Thomas Sowell
“The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.” PeopleGovernmentTelevisionTvsTreatsWarmPitcherSpitGrievancePetitionsRedress Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?” WorldWholeGovernmentWould BeLandTelevisionHealthyEnlightenedControlled Author:Wendell Berry
“The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary government, worldwide democracy and the triumph of reason over tribal loyalties, political doctrines and individual ambition. In other words, it requires that we all live in the world described by the "Star Trek" television shows.” WorldNeedsIdeasReasonShowsGovernmentPoliticalIndividualStarsDemocracyWonderfulTelevisionAmbitionInstitutionsCourtInternationalNobleCriminalsLoyaltyDoctrineTriumphTelevision Shows Author:James Lileks
“What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do everything. I do theater, film, and television, and the theater is mostly financed by the government.” GovernmentHappensFilmActorsTelevisionTvsTheaterIsraelDividedFilm And TelevisionFilm Actors Author:Meital Dohan