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“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.”

“It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.”

Television Wine Ancient Noble Advertising Beer Beverages

Author:Stephen Beaumont

“We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.”

“Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.”

Real Audience Television Tvs Products Originals Extremes Advertising Salesperson Retailers

Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“Girls get the message from very early on that what's most important is how they look, that their value, their worth depends on that. And boys get the message that this is what's important about girls. We get it from advertising. We get it from films. We get it from television shows, video games, everywhere we look. So no matter what else a woman does, no matter what else her achievements, their value still depends on how they look.”

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Author:Jean Kilbourne

“If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.”

Ifs Helping Seems Levels Television Higher Lows Complaining Advertising Diets Exception Programmes Calories Higher Level Adverts Worthlessness

Book:America

Source: America

“Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.”

Ifs Looks Remember Television Color Advertising Magazines

Author:Kelly Wearstler

“People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.”

“I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.”

Thinking Enough Shows Bigs Television Built Educational Advertising Programming Rating Think Big

Author:Will McDonough

“I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.”

Thinking Art Crazy Television Tvs Mediums Advertising Agency Rating Winking

Author:Robert Altman

“In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.”

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Book:The Fifth Vial

Source: The Fifth Vial

“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.”

Thinking Want Needs Order Results Television Industry Shoes Newspapers Advertising Expensive Mum Trainers Incessantly Videogame Advertising Industry Tesco

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.”

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Author:Lawrence Schiller

“Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.”

Ifs May Helping Feelings Hate Seeing Television Hatred Murder Advertising Intervals

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.”

Watches Television Advertising Ads Loathe

Author:John Hodgman

“All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.”

“Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.”

People Problem Watches Millions Television Tvs Mass Standards Advertising Endeavour Advertisers

Author:Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham

“It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.”

People Want Use Television Industry Paper Complicated Advertising Magazines Ads Mechanism Papers Old Days

Author:Astra Taylor

“As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.”

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Author:George Meyer

“I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte