Quotes on Lowest Common Denominator

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.