I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
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I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.
A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'
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