When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was little, there were three channels.
After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.
We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
With my channel, and what people associate with Internet, most people think it goes viral, you become this huge thing super quick. I never had an explosion or a huge thing. It's just been something that has progressively been growing. It's been building.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
No opposing quotes found.