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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor o

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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spread

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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV

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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.

Seeing a murder on television... can help work of

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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.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas

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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa

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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.

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Ame

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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.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward tel

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Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

Television has proved that people will look at an

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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

All television is children's television.

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All television is children's television.

If the television craze continues with the presen

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If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.

Time has convinced me of one thing. Televis

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Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - ar

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The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

All television is educational television. Th

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

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm

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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

There are days when any electrical appliance in t

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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.

We can put it in its proper perspective by suppos

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We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Television: A medium - so called because it

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Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done.

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