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Are we talking TV or web? See if you can guess.

December 28, 2007 | Posted by: Lee

So I'm still on the TV/Web kick.  I find so many similarities between these two mediums. So here's a test. Below are 7 quotes.  Can you identify which refer to TV and which to the web?  (Note I have eliminated words that would make this too easy.) 

1. "... has transformed the political life of the nation, has changed the daily habits of our people, has molded the style of the generation, made overnight global phenomena out of local happenings, redirected the flow of information. In other words it has profoundly affected what we call the process of socialization..."
2. "... isolates people from the environment, from each other, and from their own senses."
   
3. "... should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning."
4. "... enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."
   
5. "... is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it."
6. "... is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world."
7. "...is the greatest single achievement in communication that anybody or any area of the world has ever known."

So how did you do?   Amazingly all the quotes above were made in reference to television.

1. George Gerbner, Dean of Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1968.
2. Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, 1978.
3. Alan Kay
   
4. David Frost
5. Clive James
6. Astrid Alauda
7. Hubert Humphrey, 1961.