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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.

— Melvyn Bragg

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Bill Nye

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.

— Gretchen Rubin

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

— Neil Postman

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

— Aja Naomi King

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

— Shonda Rhimes

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.

— Sherri Saum

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

— Camille Paglia

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

— John Sculley

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

— Peter Higgs

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

— George Osborne