“Innumerate people characteristically have a strong tendency to personalize—to be misled by their own experiences, or by the media’s focus on individuals and drama.”

as interviewed by Amy Goodman, "Bernie Sanders Warns That Corporate Media Threatens Democracy," Alternet, (28 December 2016) http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/bernie-sanders-warns-corporate-media-threatens-democracy
2010s, 2016

Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 2, “Probability and Coincidence” (p. 35)

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

A Marxist Case For Intersectionality (2017)

Tomorrow it will no longer have the least interest. There is even good reason to believe that there is no interest at the time of the event. The medium is the televised image, instead of the permanent to which one must return in order to grow on one's own. It continually falls into a nothingness from which it will never be able to leave. The media world thus does not offer a self-realization of life; it offers escape. For all those whose laziness represses their energy and thus always leaves them discontent with themselves, it offers the opportunity to forget about their discontent. This forgetting recurs at each moment with each new rise of Force and Desire. Each weekend, students from the Parisian suburbs spend an average of twenty-one hours in front of their televisions, just like their teachers. At least they will have something to talk about the next day.
Books on Culture and Barbarism, Barbarism (1987)
Source: Michel Henry, Barbarism, Continuum, 2012, p. 141

Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Filmgoers’ Companion ( 1984 http://books.google.com/books?id=SAAqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Paul+Newman+Acting+is+a+question+of+absorbing+other+people's+personalities+and+adding+some+of+your+own+experience%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage)

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet