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.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
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.
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.
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.
Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.
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.
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
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