The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.
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.
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.