We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.
At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.