By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will read more

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of read more

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will read more

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren read more

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.