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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 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.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.
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.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
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