Fear Quote by David Foster Wallace

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials,…

— Dick Wolf

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

“We thought that interactivity would make advertising more engaging. We thought that traditional advertising was on the way out. We thought that the DVR…

— Bob Hoffman

“If PBS shrank the number of stations and used the money from spectrum sales and government grants for programming, we would have a genuine…

— Jonathan Taplin

“Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— John Sandford

“This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Neil Postman

“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which…

— Neil Postman

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard…

— Paul Arden

“Network Marketing is taking a decision and sticking to it!”

— Amir Chaudry

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains…

— P. J. O'Rourke