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TV can be a long commitment.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

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.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Television can be a very fickle place.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.