Critical Quote by Neil Postman

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

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

— Bill Bixby

“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come when we…

— Neil Postman

For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living…

— Costa Ronin

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we…

— Peter Paige

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

— Chi McBride

“television’s way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography’s way of knowing; that television’s conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase “serious television”…

— Neil Postman

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a…

— J. Michael Straczynski

People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's…

— Bill Maher

TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a…

— Roseanne Barr

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You…

— Newton N. Minow

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great…

— Chris Albrecht