"Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living……" — Tom Shales
"Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess."
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23 Quotes by Tom Shales
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a…
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In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can…
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books…
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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses…
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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie…
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun…
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Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line…
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