Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?
I think musicians should stay off television generally.
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.
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.