The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone.

Quote by Bill Moyers

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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always...

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always...

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for...

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for...

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite...

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite...

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing...

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing...

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms...

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms...

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what...

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what...

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power...

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power...

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to...

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to...

NBC - no body cares.

NBC - no body cares.

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything...

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything...