"Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."

Source : Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

Neil Postman

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“I'm a mother, and my life is very full.”
“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”

Source : Laurent A. Daloz (1986). “Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences”, Jossey-Bass
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

Source : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)
“We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.”

Source : Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.159, Penguin UK
“I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.”
“If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.”
“Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your healthâ€”more important than the environmentâ€”more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.”
“Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.”

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