Quotes About Television

Gone were the days when Americans were forced to pick one of three nightly news broadcasts. Now there are so many outlets that we suddenly have the ability to find the source of news that makes us the least uncomfortable.

can't decide whether his next show should be a sitcom about government bureaucrats or a horror series

the shadow puppet play of televisual hallucinations.

El vídeo después de la televisión La televisión no es vulgar y lasciva porque la gente que compone la audiencia sea vulgar y lasciva. La televisión es así simplemente porque las personas suelen ser muy similares en sus intereses vulgares y lascivos, y ampliamente diferentes en sus intereses refinados, estéticos y nobles. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." —David Foster Wallace

Then television took over, birthing the ultimate in lockstep culture.

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was a safe assumption that nearly everyone in your office had watched the same thing the previous night.

Una manera de considerar la diferencia entre las opciones limitadas de ayer y la abundancia de hoy es imaginar nuestra cultura como un océano en cuya superficie sólo existen islas de popularidad. Hay una isla musical compuesta de álbumes de gran venta, una isla de películas compuesta de éxitos de taquilla, un archipiélago de programas populares de televisión, y así sucesivamente.

The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an absurdity that found fertile ground among those who had abandoned rational inquiry for the thought-terminating clichés of television.

It's a 'Doctor Who' budget. A BBC budget, although a very good one. But you know you can't do dinosaurs endlessly for 45 minutes, so there has to be a big 'other' story going on.

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

From the start, I was focused on getting the Good Housekeeping Seal. I wanted to go on TV and tell everyone that the Miracle Mop had it. Now, I can proudly say 26 of my products have been approved!

I took on 'What Would Be Your Miracle' because I wanted to do something far removed from 'Big Brother' and 'The Voice.'

I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

I've done things I was miserable doing, and then I watched the episode and I'm proud of how fun and funny it is.

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.