“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.” PeopleInspirationalHomeHumorInspirationRoomsTelevisionTvsInventionPermitLiving RoomTelevision And Radio Author:David Frost
“It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.” RealHappensTelevisionPoliticianRadioProbingTelevision And Radio Author:John Humphrys
“television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.” EnoughCausesViolenceCrimeTelevisionImportanceKillingRadioExpertsTelevision And Radio Author:Marya Mannes
“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.” IfsTwoJobsWaitingChanceLossTalkingTelevisionListeningSingingLonelyPaidPhonesRadioDeterminedStationsCentsSaddestTwo CentsTelevision And Radio Author:Barbara Holland
“Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.” IfsArtistDiesSimpleMediaTelevisionBillsRadioSavedScalesDevicesOld LadyMalnutritionFederationTelevision And Radio Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.” WellsMeanChildrenHomeAbleMovingIndividualPresidentPleasureTelevisionDoctorsMathematicsRadioProofIndianEtcTunesProfessorsImprovingLecturesHarvardTransportationAntiquityOxfordDrudgeryExpeditionsDelhiTropicsLabradorsTelevision And Radio Author:R. Buckminster Fuller