Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.
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.
I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.
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 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 is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Television can be a very fickle place.
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.
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