“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.” PeopleHeartTwoMomentsLastsGivenSimpleHalfStruggleCenturyTelevisionTvsBattleConversationSittingAdvantageSurfacePsychologicalMemorableInterviewsStoppingFormatPower StruggleMemorable Moments Author:David Frost
“The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.” EarthLandCenturyTelevisionDiscoveryRadioComplexityOrganismsTwentieth CenturyOutstandingScientific DiscoveryLand Conservation Book:Round River Source: Round River
“Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.” TurnsCuttingCenturyTelevisionTvsAdultsEdgesLocalsHipsNow And Then Author:Tom Shales
“In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.” PeopleMenWorldKindEndsTechnologyCenturyTelevisionIndustryInternetMoonPhonesMedicalAll KindsCellsColourPrimitive20th CenturyCell PhoneOrbitMedical Technology Author:David Gerrold
“Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.” MindDealsCenturyTelevisionDrug20th CenturyInsidious Author:Terence McKenna
“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.” PeopleWritingMadeIdeasRealMy OwnDealsCompanyCenturyTelevisionProudProductionsDevelopingNew IdeasFoxes20th Century Author:Dolly Parton
“I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.” IfsThinkingYearsLongWould BeCultureTermWonderTechnologyCenturyCarTelevisionThousandPerceptionNegativeLong TermThousand Years21st CenturyShort Term Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.” WayWritingYearsMadeHandsJobsUsedGivenFiveWeekCenturyTelevisionTvsSixHollywoodScriptsStudiosUsed To BeMy TimeContractsStaff21st CenturyBack WhenGreat JobMovie Business Author:Vince Gilligan
“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.” Has BeensIdeasSelfSeemsPastHalfCenturyMediaTelevisionNewsConservativeToleranceLiberalismDelusionBiasFoxesNormSurrealObjectivityOver The PastFox NewsDeviationSelf Delusion Author:David Limbaugh
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.” ThinkingWritingImportantMomentsFilmCultureNextNovelCenturyTelevisionPoetTvsGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeEpic19th CenturyDickensImportant Moments Author:Eileen Myles
“I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.” LastsRealizingCenturyTelevisionInternetComputerRadioPhysicsLasersMicrowavesTransistors Author:Michio Kaku