Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, May 31, 1999

"[I]f you pump out ignoble, uninspiring, ugly images and sounds, kids respond in kind."

-- GOP presidential aspirant Gary Bauer responds to a comment by Time Warner Chairman Gerald Levin that the Littleton, Colo., tragedy is not a Hollywood problem.

"Attacks on flight attendants endanger the lives of everyone on board a flight and should not be tolerated."

-- Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, calling on Congress to enact a $25, O00 fine for passengers who interfere with flight attendants or pilots on the job.

"The news began making us dumber when we insisted on having it daily."

-- C. John Sommerville, a University of Florida history professor and author of How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society. Sommerville reads only weekly newsmagazines.