quotations about television
Life on television is in many ways a schematic of real life. The whole alternate reality that television creates is not a coincidence or a result of random chance. It is the product of the thinking of TV producers and writers about life. We can see reflected on our video screens the attitudes of TV creators. More than that, we can sense the experience and "feel" of a city replicated on television. For what we see on prime-time television is nothing less than the apotheosizing of Los Angeles, and the spreading of the Los Angeles experience across the TV screens of America.
ARTHUR ASA BERGER
Television in Society
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust?
SALVADOR DALI
attributed, A Companion to Television
I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
NEWTON N. MINOW
Equal Time
Television is just another appliance. It's just a toaster with pictures.
MARK S. FOWLER
interview, Reason Magazine, May 1982
First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society.
ALLAN BLOOM
The Closing of the American Mind
The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
There's always an element of caution when you say yes to projects, but what's unique about television is you oftentimes have no idea where it's going to go so there's a big leap of faith.
KEVIN BACON
The Independent, May 11, 2017
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
E. B. WHITE
"Removal", One Man's Meat