Quote by Bob Hoffman

“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.”

— Jean Thompson

“[...] interactive media is no longer a novelty [...]—it is an expectation.”

— Philip Hughes

“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.”

— David Simon

“No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.”

— David Foster Wallace

“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.”

— John Sandford

“I am also aware of television’s potential for creating a theater for the masses (a subject which in my opinion has not been taken…

— Neil Postman

“With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”

— Neil Postman

“...because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever the source,…

— Neal Gabler

“It's rarely pointed out, even though it's so obvious, that the artistic triumph of the small screen has paradoxically come at the expense of…

— Andrew Essex

“We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television”

— Neil Postman

“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialized acoustic-visual metaphor…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Here, television succeeded in completing a fantastic operation of directed consensus building, a real power grab, an OPA [Tender offer] to the entire society,…

— Jean Baudrillard