The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.