Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
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I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.
Donald Trump understands media. He's a television star. And he's connected with America.
I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.