The Whole Problem With News On Television

Children Are The Living Messages We Send To A Time We Will Not See. From A Biological Point Of View It Is Inconceivable That Any Culture Will Forget That It Needs To Reproduce Itself. But It Is Quite Possible For A Culture To Exist Without A Social Idea Of Children. Unlike Infancy, Childhood Is A Social Artifact, Not A Biological Category.

What Orwell Feared Were Those Who Would Ban Books. What Huxley Feared Was That There Would Be No Reason To Ban A Book, For There Would Be No One Who Wanted To Read One. Orwell Feared Those Who Would Deprive Us Of Information. Huxley Feared Those Who Would Give Us So Much That We Would Be Reduced To Passivity And Egoism. Orwell Feared That The Truth Would Be Concealed From Us. Huxley Feared The Truth Would Be Drowned In A Sea Of Irrelevance.

When A Population Becomes Distracted By Trivia, When Cultural Life Is Redefined As A Perpetual Round Of Entertainments, When Serious Public Conversation Becomes A Form Of Baby-talk, When, In Short, A People Become An Audience, And Their Public Business A Vaudeville Act, Then A Nation Finds Itself At Risk; Culture-death Is A Clear Possibility.

You Can Only Photograph A Fragment Of The Here And Now. The Photograph Presents The World As Object; Language, The World As Idea.

Watching Television Requires No Skills And Develops No Skills. That Is Why There Is No Such Thing As Remedial Television-watching.