Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlinis an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
CountryUnited States of America
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america together innocence
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
everyday furniture environment
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
media psychics way-to-live
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
thinking media
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
dream people care
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
song brave doe
Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?
jesus christ possibility
My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.
writing thinking media
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
party two differences
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
movement may awful
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
justice movement may
Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
winning people convince
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
desire moguls driven
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.