“I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.” FilmArtistSuccessfulComedyTelevisionSeriesIncludingRoosters Author:LeRoy Neiman
“I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.” PeopleThinkingTogetherFacesNamesHalfGroupsTelevisionIncludingDozenReportersColleaguesWireSmall GroupsCannons Author:David E. Hoffman
“By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.” ChildrenHelpingAgeGrowsEasyClearViolenceMediaTelevisionSafeAdultsMurderResponsibleStructureIncludingAverageConsistentProvidingBeing ResponsibleActs Of ViolenceMedia Violence Author:Jean Illsley Clarke
“Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?” Has BeensNextTelevisionCommitmentIncludingDefinitionsOur FutureMomentumConstraints Author:Anne Sweeney
“Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.” PeopleDifferentSelfWould BeValuesCultureStuffBlackTelevisionProductsPleaseSafeSellsIncludingTechniqueConsumersIronyShockAgendasCynicismEthosBlack Humor Author:David Foster Wallace
“The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.” WorldHouseMediaTelevisionIncludingRadioNewspapersMagazinesAround The WorldOperationsAgencyStationsControlledPublishingWireCiaPublishing HouseMagazine Publishing Author:Michael Parenti
“The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'” ThinkingI CanStoriesTelevisionLowsHollywoodBasesIncludingFactorsPostsScoreEmpiresStanding OutBarbariansHordeMovie MakingOld Hollywood Author:Ben Hecht
“Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the way Murdoch operates. Everything is for sale, including his birthright. The Mirror is not read by soccer hooligans. It's read by ordinary people of this country. That comment is simply patronizing. But to be criticized by the Moonies and Murdoch in one breath is really just a fine moment for me.” PeopleWayCountryStatesMomentsOrderUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionFineOrdinaryBreathsMirrorsIncludingSoccerStationsCommentCitizenshipOrdinary PeopleAustralianGave UpBirthrightPatronizing Author:John Pilger