“Reality Television is the 'Howard Stern-ation' of all that is bad with our media today”

“...getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern.”

“Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. ”

“Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)”

“She found that obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren’t obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There was no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.”

“A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.”