A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.
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Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
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