Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Nicholas Johnson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Nicholas Johnson.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Nicholas Johnson

Nicholas Johnson is an American academic and lawyer. He wrote How to Talk Back to Your Television Set and was a Federal Communications Commission commissioner from 1966 to 1973. He is retired from teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law, with an emphasis on communications and Internet law, and since 2006 has posted over 1000 blog essays.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. — © Nicholas Johnson
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.
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