Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
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.
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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