The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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.
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.
Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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.
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