Compelling Quote by Hedrick Smith

[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world…

— Laurie Garrett

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

— Robin Day

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the…

— Kari Skogland

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Jo Brand

Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values…

— David Foster Wallace

A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but…

— Marie Winn

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they…

— Lee Hirsch

“But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the…

— Neil Postman

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

— Barney Frank

A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push…

— Tuppence Middleton

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […]…

— Neil Postman