"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." - Clive Barnes

"Television is the first truly democratic culture-the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." - Clive Barnes, in New York Times

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad." - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." - G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." - Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson

"I am a printer, and a printer of news; ... I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news." - Ben Johnson

"I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it." - Will Rogers

"New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's permanent institutions of both law and expectation." - Barlow, John Perry in 'Crime & Puzzlement'

"The depth of interest, sensitivity, and understanding is often much greater on an issue than one imagines judging only by the narrow bandwidth of most human communication." - Freeman, Dr. Peter A.

"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach." - Koppel, Ted

"Television--a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done." - Kovacs, Ernie

"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it." - Leeper, Mark

"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." - Marx, Groucho [Julius Henry] (1895-1977)

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either." - McLuhan, Marshall

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )

"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel." - 'Taxi'