Television news can profoundly disconnect us from what's actually going on around us   (Robert Winter)

Sometimes the news media are profoundly, even dangerously, out of touch with real life   (Robert Winter)

Today's media generate an enveloping--and ultimately isolating--illusion of connectedness   (Robert Winter)

Media-style "authority" has more to do with popular acceptance than with proof   (Robert Winter)

Making an idea's authority coequal to popular acceptance is an invitation down the path to back to more primitive belief systems   (Robert Winter)

"Virtual Society?"   (Robert Winter)

"The Dissociative Society"   (Robert Winter)