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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.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will read more
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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.