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.
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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.
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has read more
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic read more
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.
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.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read read more
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
