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.

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

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

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.

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.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still read more

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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.