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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
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.
What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Television is such a mediocre medium.
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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.