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.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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 is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

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.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in read more

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

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

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

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.