“You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.” PowerfulTelevisionEpisodesVery PowerfulEstonia Author:Yul Vazquez
“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.” PeopleIfsShouldDifferentPlayShowsHandsUsedForcePowerfulWatchesTelevisionFoolPoliceMediumsSomething BetterSitcom Author:Roone Arledge
“To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.” ThinkingIdeasCareGuySongPowerfulTelevisionNormalMiracleEverydayRadioEveryday LifeMundaneNoticingNobody CaresReally PowerfulWeathermen Author:Gregory Alan Isakov
“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksSometimesFilmWealthRoomsPowerfulTalkingRolesTelevisionPerformancesSexyRevolutionaryPowerful WomenPeople Talking Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.” DoneJobsFormPowerfulTelevisionTheatreStorytellingQueensVirginsShameless Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.” UsedImaginationPowerfulModernMediaStyleTelevisionEmotionalRewardsTechniquePlentyCinemaPaceStorytellerRapidsStimulus Author:Michael O'Brien
“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.” LyingDiesPowerfulClassDemocracyInformationTelevisionSourceReaderInternetCitizensNewsBlindLeavingEntertainmentAccessTraditionalDumbJournalistCorporationsRetreatDeafRuthlessIdeologicalGhettoTrustworthyFusion Author:Chris Hedges
“To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.” BigsPowerfulGroupsMediaTelevisionPressesNewspapersMagazinesChainsCombinationMonopolyGoliath Author:Thomas B. Griffith
“To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.” ThinkingImportantLawPowerfulTechnologyPositionTelevisionExploringLaw EnforcementEnforcementIn-lawsNew Technology Author:Patricia Arquette