There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. – Jean Baudrillard
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. – Carl Bernstein
TV is a fickle business. Im only good for the length of my contract. – Tom Brokaw
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. – William Hodding Carter, Jr.
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. – Sir Robin Day
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. – Barbara Ehrenreich
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. – Dwight D Eisenhower
Lets face it, there are no plain women on television. – Anna Ford
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. – Michael J. Fox
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldnt have in your house. – David Frost
Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator. – Marc Fumaroli
A three — to four — to five-hour experience with nothingness. – Frederic Glezer
Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. – David Hockney
