While some old media do, in fact, disappear (e.g., pictographic writing and illuminated manuscripts) and with them, the institutions and cognitive habits they favored, other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing. Thus the epistemology of new forms such as television does not have an entirely unchallenged

Henry Coswell remarked in 1839 that “religious mania is said to be the prevailing form of insanity in the United States.”[11]

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.

A myth is a way of thinking so deeply embedded in our consciousness that it is invisible.

The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

You cannot do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content.

The commercial asks us to believe that all problems are solvable, that they are solvable fast, and that they are solvable fast through the interventions of technology, techniques and chemistry.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

The new focus on the image undermined traditional definitions of information, of news, and, to a large extent, of reality itself.