All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

[Television is] demanding more cognitive engagement with each passing year, ... Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter.

The most debased forms of mass diversion - video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms - turn out to be nutritional after all,

I am but a message in a world full of messengers

I am but a messenger in a world full of messages

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.