Television Quote by Anonymous

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

— T. S. Eliot

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

— Adrian Pasdar

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or…

— Jennifer Stone

“The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it…

— Bernard Goldberg

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

— David Bowie

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think…

— David Foster Wallace

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

— Lauren Zalaznick

People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's…

— Bill Maher

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

— Jo Brand

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

— Pierre Bourdieu

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People…

— Les Brown

People are going to think and take things how they're going to take it, and I have no control over that, so it's kind…

— Phil Anselmo