“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.” PeopleIfsWritingStoriesYoungChanceAudienceAirEventsTelevisionHigherNewsCamerasMtvBreaking News Author:Tabitha Soren
“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.” KnowsPersonsWould BeFacesGrowing UpSawsGrowingEventsNew YorkTelevisionHugeCallingLike MeAsianUnheardOlder Sister Author:Yunjin Kim
“As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother” BigsRealityMightWeekEventsTelevisionReadyBrotherFitFingersUglyForeignersReality TelevisionCelebs Author:John Sentamu
“I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasEvilEventsTelevisionTerribleAspectNotionIncrediblesTerroristHorribleDumbNo IdeaSatOrganizedCompetenceFacetsEvil PeopleTerrible Events Author:Andy Rooney
“In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in its replacement of family rituals and special events, television has played an important role in the disintegration of the American family.” ChildrenImportantRolesSpecialEffectsEventsTelevisionActiveRitualParentalWithdrawalReplacementsAmerican FamilyDisintegrationSocializationFamily RelationshipSpecial Events Author:Marie Winn
“A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.” PeopleRealRealityAbleSituationEventsPossibilityTelevisionDistinctionSteadySensitivityViewersSpectatorsDisturbingUnreal Book:Plug in Drug Source: Plug in Drug
“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.” PeopleWantYearsProblemKidsTogetherNextGamesEventsTelevisionHugeGoes OnIndustryInternationalComicToysTicketsMarketplaceNext YearDimesMotion PicturesComic ConAdmittanceTelevision Industry Author:Mike Royer
“The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.” WonderfulEventsTelevisionImpactCurrentsWonderful ThingsCurrent Events Author:Will McDonough
“Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.” WorldUsedGamesEventsTelevisionCreatingBowlsSuper BowlSporting Events Author:Will McDonough
“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantWould BeSchoolLeftHoursHalfSituationOpinionEconomicEventsTelevisionTaughtOughtNewsPressureRidiculousMediumsEveningJournalPublic SchoolHalf Hours Author:Walter Cronkite
“One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.” PeopleEndsProblemFilmNextHappenedWeekEventsTelevisionColorMajorsOkayLife ChangingEpisodesNext Week Author:Peter Capaldi
“Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.” KindEventsTelevisionMagnificent Author:Richard Lloyd
“Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.” WorldGivingLongHas BeensArtWarFilmFormWhiteRichEventsTelevisionPerspectiveDrugSeriesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IWireWar On DrugsRibbonsGreat FilmFilm And Television Author:Teju Cole
“Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?” CareStuffEventsTelevisionCostStudiosRidiculousNewspapersInvestorsSporting EventsDo You Care Author:Curtis Hanson