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“Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.”

“Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.”

Happens Artist Television Mediums Businessman

Author:Pauline Kael

Source: For Keeps

“Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.”

Philosophy Humor Television Apes Chandler Raymond Chandler Ooze

Author:Raymond Chandler

“Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.”

Sea Media Television Internet News Saved

Author:Matt Drudge

“Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.”

Mind Ideas Stories Problem Simple Television Products Solutions Notion Screens Technological Naive Commonplace Whales Anatomy Utopian Jonah Saturated

Author:Neil Postman

Source: Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education

“Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.”

People Want Character Shows Eye Television Series

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.”

Rooms Television Bears Series Pigs Bulls

Author:Bob Newhart

“Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.”

Should Television Camelot

Author:E. B. White

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.”

World Should Lasts Television Communication Mass Mediums Warning Surgeons Mass Communication

Author:Alan Kay

“Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.”

Television Bunch Optimistic

Author:Eric Kripke

“Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols”

Different Sex Television Pistols Ramones Sex Pistols Blondie

Author:David Byrne

“Television speeded everything up.”

Television

Author:Ruth Handler

“Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.”

Needs Shows Reality Actors Quality Plans Television Studios Movie Farms Agriculture Reality Shows

Author:Alfre Woodard

“Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.”

Knows Want Stills Watches Television Hero Offers Villain

Author:Robert Redford

“Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.”

Should Names Written Television Scripts Theatre Rely Adaptation Implied

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”

Emotion Television Intellect Strikes Thrive

Author:Robin Day

“Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.”

“Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.”

Said Television Irritating Pedantic

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.”

Knows Years Mean Long Television Long Time Happenings Programming Viewers

Author:Maury Povich

“Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what I think the problem is: that the networks own the shows, and they completely think that they make them. They don't any longer let the people who make shows just make them. The networks have notes about everything. They are intimately involved in every aspect of the process. And I think it's hurt the process.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Shows Problem Process Hurt Numbers Television Internet Involved Aspect Notes

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.”

Book Different Ends Shows Reading Waiting Watches Television Seasons Bases Satisfying Weekend Dvds Different Experiences

Author:Alan Ball

“Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.”

Kind Faces Moving Fall Mistake Television Okay Making Mistakes

Author:Max Martini

“Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle cameras on rockets so that it would be possible to watch the sky.”

Firsts Kind Would Be Wanted Used Watches Sky Television Cameras Settling Inventor Rockets Telescopes Broadcasting

Author:Paul Virilio

“Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.”

Humans Human Beings Television Gossip Vacuous Vacuity

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.”

Kind Events Television Magnificent

Author:Richard Lloyd

“Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.”

Policy Television Tools Selling Chiefs Propaganda

Author:Richard N. Haass

“Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.”

Television Machines Supposed To Be Parks Commodity Belly Pork National Parks

Author:Fred W. Friendly

“Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.”

Humans Class Conditions Century Events Changed Television Revolution Discovery Importance Presses Invention Revolutionary Human Condition Printing Printing Press Gunpowder

Author:Russell Baker

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.”

Simple Support Television Band Guitar Treated Rhythm Aggression Teenage Delicacy

Author:Richard Lloyd

“Television wasn't prestigious.”

Television Prestigious

Author:Dorothy Malone

“Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.”

Doe Use Reading Written Television Intellectual Standards Junk Homework Junk Food Television Watching

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure”

Way Should Eye Form Rooms Television Ears Staring Leisure Inferiors Persistent Relentless Daydreaming Television Watching

Author:Witold Rybczynski

“Television will do anything for a rating... anything!”

Television Rating

Author:Paddy Chayefsky

“Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.”

Eye Together Forget Television Radio Favors Primaries Range Elsewhere Mags

Author:E. B. White

“Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

People Lasts Night Technology Television Tired Boxes Staring Every Night Predictions Predicting Predicting The Future Science Technology

Author:Darryl F. Zanuck

“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”

Inspirational Wells Done Humor Funny Television Mediums Well Done

Author:Ernie Kovacs

“Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.”

Doe Has Beens Together Song Games Quality Special Television Depends Activity Members Jokes Familiar Contribution Ritual Domination Family Life

Author:Marie Winn

“Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.”

Way Mean Individual Television Pressure Misery Programming Excess Tested Escapists

Author:Tom Shales

“Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.”

People Film Secret Television Amount Weapons Investing Hopefully Get Better More Money Wraps

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.”

Thinking Littles Ends Stories Actors Television Adults Good Things Complexes

Author:Tom Selleck

“Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.”

Television Filth

Author:Dennis Potter

“Television's not going read stories to you.”

Stories Television

Author:Kurt Loder

“Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.”

Television News Dependent

Author:Kurt Loder

“Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.”

Ifs Want Should Kind Television Yeah Mediums Performers Jerk

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.”

People Giving Stills Voice Television Decline Aggravation Steep

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.”

Knows World Kind Whole Television New World

Author:David Caruso

“Television, cable, features are always out there.”

Television Features Cables

Author:Kyle Chandler

“Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.”

Television Internet Boundaries Cables

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.”

Turns Lines Memories Television Enormous Despite

Author:Justin Kaplan

“Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.”

Way Television Mediums One Way

Author:Idris Elba

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