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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.
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is read more
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for read more
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in read more
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, read more
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
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.
When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit read more
When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
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.