| The use of propaganda during the Cold War, for example, led to the dumbing down of valuable political ideas. |
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| The ultimate result of dumbing down is not, as its champions would no doubt want to claim, the collapse of cultural hierarchy and privilege. |
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| It is not so much a case of dumbing down, as pumping up the volume and giving it back to the people. |
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| Change is dumbing down to the people who have an interest in what was there. |
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| He skilfully manages to convey the meat of the science without undue technicality, but also without any dumbing down. |
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| As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas. |
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| It was trashy, sleazy and every other adjective associated with dumbing down. |
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| I rant and rave at the screen, decrying the dumbing down of what used to be a medium for entertaining and educating. |
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| It is not about dumbing down, it is about presenting ourselves in the best possible way. |
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| The reason why dumbing down and tabloid trivialisation is so widespread is that it works. |
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| Instead of voluntary dumbing down, there's a steady process of public self-enlightenment. |
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| And how much does television have to do with it, that maligned medium always associated with dumbing down? |
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| The show's success bolsters his theory that popular culture, far from dumbing down, is smartening up. |
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| Nods to popular culture have brought inevitable cries of dumbing down but if anything they makes the quiz even more troublesome. |
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| Too often the process of dumbing down is associated with the expansion of junk television and trash entertainment. |
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| It all went pear shaped around the second half of 1990 when the Big Bloke bought the network back and the wilful dumbing down began with a vengeance. |
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| It seems to me most of it is dumbing down the issue of crime and trying to oversimplify it. |
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| Such a policy would help us to maintain standards against dumbing down, whatever its origin. |
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| Mr. DesRosiers, thank you for dumbing down your presentation so I can understand it. |
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| What we are seeing is a dumbing down, and the consequences of nations choosing to reduce their numbers. |
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| The multifarious expressions of cultural diversity which nourish dialogue among cultures are thus victim to dumbing down. |
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| We have dumbing down to the lowest common denominator of dull jazz, folk, world, and other diverse bad music. |
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| There is an appearance of dumbing down content to appeal to the masses, with the result of alienating the dedicated CBC listener. |
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| The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down. |
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| I certainly wouldn't recommend dumbing down in the name of accessibility. |
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| With the multiplication of media platforms and the dumbing down of the news media, how are serious public policy debates to be conducted in such a diffuse and diverse environment? |
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| The right model for successfully meeting the challenges of globalisation is competition for the most successful economic, employment, research, education and social policies, not European dumbing down. |
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| Of course I shall be voting against this dumbing down of democracy. |
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| Biased information, censorship or distortion of news and views unacceptable to the ruling interests, widespread dumbing down and total disrespect for workers' rights are the order of the day in most modern media. |
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| And instead of the flourishing of the arts anticipated from the privatisation of radio and television, broadcasting companies are dumbing down and distorting culture, disorientating and misleading the public. |
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| Perhaps that's because he doesn't belittle his audience by dumbing down the material or feeding them dogmatic pablum. |
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| The CBC is not dumbing down, but building up, and it's attempting to reflect the real range of brilliant Canadian music of all kinds, which deserves to be exposed to Canadian listeners. |
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| As the baby boom generation ages, if we intend to keep the CBC alive and well, we must find ways of connecting with younger listeners. I would like to see this done without dumbing down the programming. |
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| But the most illuminating example of a Britain dumbing down came with the very revealing. |
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| I am wholly in favour of expanding educational opportunity, but it should not be at the expense of dumbing down what is being offered. |
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| When he announced the watchdog reforms in September last year, Mr Balls said he wanted to end the annual August debate about dumbing down. |
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| But they were hidden away, so if they hide their best programmes people get the impression they're dumbing down. |
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| Each of his victims has launched their own version of the dumbing down argument in recent weeks. |
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| But if instant cappuccinos and lattes represent a dumbing down of an authentic real coffee offering, this doesn't seem to be damaging sales. |
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| With an under-resourced plan that apparently includes dumbing down local news and beefing up its stable of cheap and cheerful 'factual entertainment' series. |
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| But if we are dumbing down so dramatically, why did more people go to a museum or art gallery last year than to a live sporting event or a theme park? |
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| There is an inevitable dumbing down of the system in order to retain the small number of students who want to study these subjects in the first place,' he said. |
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| Nearly half the chapters are devoted to Canadian film and television, acknowledging the enormous influence Canadians have had on the dumbing down of North American humour. |
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