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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.

— Walter Cronkite

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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.

— Sherri Saum

Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.

— Anne Sweeney

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

— Will McDonough

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

— Jim Fowler

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

— Billy Graham

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.

— Chuck Palahniuk

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

— Tony Kushner

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

— Raymond Chandler

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

— Melissa Leo

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