- All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
Nicholas Johnson - I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness," but that doesn't work.
Author unknown - Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers - I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx - We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
George H.W. Bush - If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.
Jerome Singer - Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs - Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.
Donna Gephart - Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost - It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
Paddy Chayevsky - Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
Fred Allen - TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
Author unknown - Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright - If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
Joey Adams - TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it.
Author unknown, from New York Times, 1939 - I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles - The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Andrew Ross - Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn - I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.
Jason Love - Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska - If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.
Daniel Marsh, 1950 - All television is children's television.
Richard P. Adler - Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.
E.B. White - The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
Milton Mayer - Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
Marvin Minksy - In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows.
Woody Allen - If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Lily Tomlin - If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
Dave Barry - The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.
Author unknown - I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them.
John Barrow, 1973 - I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar - If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson - When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."
Alistair Cooke
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