The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Television has changed. Some feels like good old-fashioned TV, and some of it feels more filmic and more natural and more nuanced. I don't think there's any clear line any longer between film and TV.
In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.
Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.