Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.