television

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a carnival a travelling troupe of acrobats storytellers dancers singers jugglers sideshow freaks lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.

When television is good nothing is better. But when television is bad nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic facts and reason it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Of all the dramatic media radio is the most visual.

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.