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Quote by Ernie Kovacs
Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor we

Television: A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done. – Ernie Kovacs

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Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. – Lee Loevinger

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MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980s. – Doug Ferrari

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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

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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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