Attention span Quote by Eric Alterman

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families…

— Eric Alterman

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

I suppose Americans get a kick out of watching a crazy Brit family like us make complete fools of ourselves every week.

— Ozzy Osbourne

American television really is pathetic.

— Brian Eno

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

— Jim Butcher

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

— Edward Abbey

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

— M.C. Beaton

Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.

— Wesley Morris

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

— Martin Mull

Everybody in America is angry about something.

— Anthony Braxton

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

— Craig Ferguson