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So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperat

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes…. TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. – John Mason Brown, January 1955, modification of an earlier statement by Henri Pe

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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. – Gene Roddenberry

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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

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Television has raised writing to a new low. – Samuel Goldwyn

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