Neal Gabler Quotes & Sayings

Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes. — Neal Gabler

He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection. — Neal Gabler

he had become the patriarch of horseflesh. — Neal Gabler

Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one: he demonstrated how one could assert one's will on the world at the very time when everything seemed to be growing beyond control and beyond comprehension. — Neal Gabler

Having invited these performances in the first place, the media justified covering them because they were receiving media attention... The result was to make of modern society one giant Heisenberg effect in which the media were not really reporting what people did; they were reporting what people did to get media attention. — Neal Gabler

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all. — Neal Gabler

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive — Neal Gabler

...because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever the source, was forced to become entertainment. — Neal Gabler

...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience. — Neal Gabler

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value. — Neal Gabler