Television has thrown in the towel. It rarely even pays lip service to its once brave mission to educate and illuminate. Instead it gives us what we want, in much the same vein as the doctors who handed out Valium like Smarties to desperate Sixties housewives.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- TV abandoned its educational duty to feed shallow desires, like doctors dispensing pills.
- In plain terms
- TV stopped educating people and just gives them easy distractions.
- What can you take from it?
- Entertainment has replaced education in modern media.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What value should media provide?
- How is your attention spent?
Another view
Some educational content still exists on the internet.
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