There is something very rude that flattens everything in today's society, [...] turn on the radio and listen for half a minute of comments to the facts of the day you have to put up with more advertising and that news frames. [...] Most of the channels of mass communication, which are governed by advertising, do not worry about anything of the kind of education that tend to give. I can not say whether the effects are of obscurantist character. On the other hand, it seems that no one cares messages, we laugh over and buy the same goods, no matter what they think of advertising that accompanies it.
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Roy Lichtenstein, 1966 (text conversation with Alan Solomon for a TV broadcast. Published for the first time in A. Boatto / G. Falzon, "Lichtenstein" in " Fantazaria, No. 2, July-August 1966).
