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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
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.
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
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.
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.