Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
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.
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
Television can be a very fickle place.
Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
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