Boring Quote by Lester Bangs

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by…

— Howard Zinn

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment…

— Christopher Knight

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

— Dennis Prager

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures,…

— Shana Alexander

The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world…

— Howard Zinn

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to…

— Jeffrey Jones

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It…

— John Humphrys

From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.

— Agnes Moorehead

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

— Heather Donahue

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

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is…

— John Cleese