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"Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished."

"TV stars are cool. Even if their characters are less than admirable, they come across as somehow sympathetic, maybe even neighborly. They are, after all, people you invite into your home every week. I..."

"By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been ..."

"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."

"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"

"He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy."

"Of all the dramatic media radio is the most visual."

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

"Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic facts and reason it emphasizes pers..."

"Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses."