Arise Quote by Norman Lear

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

— Ken Howard

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such…

— Sherri Saum

“The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it…

— Bernard Goldberg

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

— Matt Bomer

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly…

— Walter Cronkite

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy…

— Jeremy Paxman

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

— J. Michael Straczynski

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

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

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

— Claire Danes

I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away…

— William Gibson