Television is hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression (Postman)
May 20th, 2006 | Published in Culture, Education, Quotes, Television
If we say that these industries only give our youth what they will pay for, the question remains, Why do our youth turn away from civilized speech? The answer, in my opinion, is that the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power.
–Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. 74