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

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

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.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.