Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
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.
At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.
What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
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!