The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.
~ Neil Postman via The Atlantic

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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist—all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
~ Neil Postman via The Atlantic

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